Liliane Marchais (24 August 1935 – 9 April 2020) was a French communist activist.[1]
Biography
Born in Malakoff on 24 August 1935, Marchais' father was a toolmaker, and her mother was unemployed. In 1961, she married Maurice Garcia, a member of the French Communist Party, with whom she had a daughter, Annie. The couple divorced, and Liliane married Georges Marchais in 1977. They had a son, Olivier.[2] The family lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a suburb southeast of Paris.
Following a stroke, Marchais left her home in Champigny-sur-Marne and moved into a care home in Bry-sur-Marne. She died of COVID-19 on 9 April 2020, at the age of 84.[6][7] The Communist Party's national secretary, Fabien Roussel, announced her death via a press release.[8] She was buried on 16 April in Champigny-sur-Marne, next to her husband.[9]