Frédérique Neau-Dufour is « agrégée » and holds a PhD in history. After teaching history and geography until 1998, Frédérique Neau-Dufour was appointed research officer at the Charles-de-Gaulle Foundation. She was curator of the exhibition at the Charles-de-Gaulle memorial in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, the travelling exhibition “Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, a Franco-German friendship”, and La Boisserie, General de Gaulle’s family home, until 2009. She was then appointed remembrance adviser in the cabinet of Hubert Falco, Secretary of State for Defence and Veterans, to prepare the 70th anniversary of the Appel du 18 Juin. From 2011 to 2019, she directed the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members (CERD) located on the site of the former Struthof concentration camp (Bas-Rhin).