André Charles Adrien Tollet (1 July 1913 – 14 December 2001) was a French upholsterer, trade unionist and communist.

[2] In Spain he met Henri Tanguy, a Parisian from a Breton family who was political commissar of the XIV International Brigade.

[1] After the Fall of France, in July 1940 Tollet, Eugène Hénaff and Jean-Pierre Timbaud began to form popular committees in the work places and clandestine unions.

[4] He was arrested in October 1940 with other communist party politicians and activists, and was imprisoned for fifteen months in Fresnes Prison and then in the Rouillet camp.

[1] In October 1943 he was named chairman of the Paris liberation committee (Comité parisien de la Libération, CPL).

[7] Tollet urged an immediate nationwide insurrection, while de Gaulle did not want to provide arms to civilians and opposed premature action.

Instead he went first to the Ministry of War, where the center of government was established, and then to the Prefecture of Police, before finally visiting the Hôtel de Ville.