Maquis de Rieumes Montastruc Savès without sustaining any wounded. The Maquis carried out operations until the liberation of Muret on 20 August 1944. A stele of gratitude to the people of Savères and Lautignac was constructed at the edge of the forest. Maquis de Rieumes The Maquis de Rieumes was one of the maquis groups of French resistance fighters during the Second World War. In 1942, the "Juge d'instruction" of Muret, André Reboul, along with other patriots, founded the group which in 1944 would become the Maquis de Rieumes. In 1943, the group reinforced itself and was joined by, among others, Jules Delattre,
Maquis (World War II) the same sites for months, defying their own rules of mobility. Guerrilla warfare practiced by the Maquis “created a psychosis of fear within the enemy [...], giving an impression of numbers and strength which was more illusory than real". The Maquis de l’Ain’s effectiveness was due to the training school opened at Gorges above Mongriffon in June 1943. Captain Romans described the situation like so: "The watchwords were explicit: no large concentrations of men. No pitched battles. Guerrilla warfare only! We had a few revolvers and some hunting rifles and were reduced to making sketches in order to teach the