The Groupe du musée de l'Homme (French for 'Group of the Museum of Man') was a movement in the French resistance to the German occupation during the Second World War.

In July 1940, after the Appeal of 18 June from Charles de Gaulle, a resistance group was created by intellectuals and academics led by Anatole Lewitsky and Boris Vildé, along with Paul Hauet. They were not Gaullists; since they were prisoners of war (Vildé escaped on 5 July and  Lewitsky was freed in August), it is highly improbable that they had heard de Gaulle's broadcast. However, once Gaullist propaganda took hold, with its message of  escape from dishonour, the group fell in with it. Germaine Tillion said, "I do not remember from what date we started to call ourselves Gaullists: it was not at the beginning at any rate. But we did consider General de Gaulle to be right, or at least to be a man who thought as we did. But we knew nothing about him". They were joined by other groups in September. Raymond Burgard, René Iché, Claude Aveline, Marcel Abraham, Jean Cassou (who launched the newspaper Résistance), René-Yves Creston, Germaine Tillion and her mother, Émilie Tillion, were also part of the network.

To prevent their meetings from attracting the attention of the Germans and the French police, they set up a "literary society", Les amis d'Alain-Fournier (The Friends of Alain-Fournier).

Members of the group 
Marcel Abraham
Jules Andrieu, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes) 
Claude Aveline (1901–1992)
Jean Blanzat
Jacqueline Bordelet
Pierre Brossolette, (1903- died in detention in 1944 / 22.3.1944)
Raymond Burgard, beheaded in 1944 (in Cologne / Köln), also a member of the Combat Zone North
Jean-Paul Carrier

Jean Cassou, launched the newspaper Résistance (1897–1986)
René-Yves Creston, ethnologist and Breton nationalist
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
 Colette Duval (Colette Vivier)
 Jean Duval
René-Georges Étienne
Valentin Feldman
 Marcel Fleisser (-1945) 
 Jeanne Goupille
 Jean Hamburger
Colonel Paul Hauet, co-founder of the network, died during deportation / died in the KZ Neuengamme
Daniel Héricault
Agnès Humbert, deported
René Iché
Georges Ithier, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes) 
Jean Jaudel (1910–2006)
Albert Jubineau
(Colonel) Charles de La Rochère died in Sonnenburg
 (Comte) Jehan de Launoy
Michel Leiris
Sylvette Leleu
Renée Lévy
Anatole Lewitsky, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes), adjunct to Vildé
Suzanne Lhuillier 
 Éveline Lot-Falck
 (Capitain) Ernest Massip
 Marie-Josette Massip 
 Thérèse Massip
Jaques Monod
Léon Maurice Nordmann, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes)
Yvonne Oddon
Jean Paulhan
Maguy Perrier
Germaine Quoniam
Paul Rivet
René Sanson
Colette Sanson
René Sénéchal, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes) 
Alice Simmonet
Henri Simmonet
Emilie Tillion, died while being deported to Ravensbrück in 1945
Germaine Tillion, head of the adjunct network around Hauet with the rank of commandant from 1941 to 1942, deported to Ravensbrück
Boris Vildé, co-founder and leader of the network, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes) 
Pierre Walter, shot in February 1942 (Mont-Valérien, Suresnes) 
Henri Waquet
André Weil-Curriel
Therese de Liniers ?
Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz ?

References

Bibliography 
 AERI, La Résistance en Ile de France, DVD-Rom, 2004 (fiches Jean Cassou, René Iché, Germaine Tillion).
 Martin Blumenson, Le Réseau du Musée de l'Homme, Éditions Le Seuil, Paris, 1979.
 Sean Carroll, Brave Genius: A Scientist, A Philosopher, and their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize, Crown Publishers, New York, 2013.
 Agnès Humbert, Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France, translated by Barbara Mellor, Bloomsbury, New York, 2008.
 Alan Riding, And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010 (chapter six, "Resistance as an Idea," on the musée de l'Homme group).

External links (French) 
 Le musée de l'Homme on the site Chemins de Mémoire
 L'histoire du réseau du musée de l'Homme
 Site du musée Boris Vildé

French Resistance networks and movements
1940 establishments in France
Organizations established in 1940