President Truong Tan Sang yesterday conferred the Ho Chi Minh Order on Raymond Aubrac, a French resistance leader during the Second World War, for his support of Vietnam during past wars. The order, the country’s second highest, was received by Aubrac’s daughter Elizabeth in Hanoi. President Sang recounted activities that her father participated in during his revolutionary life. Aubrac and his wife Lucie helped set up Liberation South, one of the first networks of the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of France. In 1946, Aubrac met late President Ho Chi Minh when the Vietnamese revolutionary leader came to France for peace negotiations at Fontainebleau and stayed in his house. During the Vietnam War, Aubrac served as an intermediary between late President Ho Chi Minh and Western leaders such as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and joined a group of intellectuals and scientists working to end the war. He died early this year at the age of 97.