Most of the Maquis cells-like the Maquis du Limousin or the Maquis du Vercors-took names after the area they were operating in.
In French Indochina, the local resistance fighting the Japanese since 1941 was backed up by a special forces airborne commando unit created by de Gaulle in 1943, and known as the Corps Léger d'Intervention (CLI).