Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld [Obit: dead at age 88]

The Telegraph ^ | 29 June 2012 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who has died aged 88, escaped from Occupied France to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE); parachuted back on sabotage missions, he twice faced execution, only to escape on both occasions, once dressed as a Nazi guard.

[Daffynition]

I, for one, am among the first to tweek the French...but this is one badass Frenchman's obit.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Wow, truly amazing man.

[cartan]

A true hero. RIP

[Daffynition]

Quite a hero, not exactly behaving like what I imagine a French aristocrat would do.

[the invisib1e hand]

As Jesse naisbitt use to say, “they don’t make men like they used to...”

[muir_redwoods]

Quite a story, quite a man. RIP

[MinuteGal]

This would make a great movie.

The two men kissing each other on the lips certainly should catch the attention of Hollywood.

Leni

[scooby321]

I have to hear how great Obama is this man is a true hero

[a fool in paradise]

Sounds cooler than Andy Griffith.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.