Brutus Network

It was founded in 1941 by Pierre Fourcaud, parachuted in France with instructions from Charles de Gaulle to set up an intelligence network,[1] and other socialist members of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), from the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Southern Zone, and led by Félix Gouin.

Extending itself in 1942–43, Brutus became a national Resistance network in February 1943, in particular through the impulsion of André Boyer.

André Boyer entered the directing committee of the Mouvements unis de Résistance (United Movements of Resistance) in November 1943.

At the end of this year, the network was strongly affected by the arrest of Boyer, Sudreau, and Hermann.

Gaston Defferre, later mayor of Marseilles for years, succeeded to André Boyer (he was previously his deputy) as national chief.