youth that prevented her from having children. Together, Pierre and Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux became prominent members of the Resistance. Mrs. Lefaucheux later became a Member of the first Constituent Assembly (Aisne) of France, Counsel for the Republic elected by the National Assembly from 1946 to 1947, member of the French delegation to the United Nations. She was one of the fifteen founding members of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Her role in the Liberation of France was paraphrased in the 1966 film Is Paris Burning. Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux died in the 1964 New Orleans crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 304. References External links Pierre Lefaucheux, compagnon de la Libération The entry incorporates text translated from the corresponding French Wikipedia entry as at 2008-10-24. French automotive pioneers French Resistance members Companions of the Liberation Renault people 1898 births 1955 deaths Road incident deaths in France People from Yvelines French Army officers French industrialists Buchenwald concentration camp survivors