France is to finally pay official tribute this week to the youngest French Resistance hero of the Second World War - a six-year-old boy who Britain also recognised as playing a key local role against the Nazis. Marcel Pinte, nicknamed Quinquin, will for the first time be honoured on Armistice Day on Wednesday, when his name will be officially unveiled on the war memorial in Aixe-sur-Vienne just west of the central city of Limoges. The pint-sized resistance fighter was the son of a prominent commander, Eugène Pinte, also known as Athos, who led a local movement around Limoges with 1,200 fighters by the end of the war. More than a mere mascot, little Marcel would shuttle unseen between farms in the area to pass on messages, and even smuggled key documents under his coat into central Limoges because the Nazis never frisked little children. His father ran his resistance headquarters in 1941 out of a small, isolated farm at a village of Gaubertie, where he lived with his wife Paule and their five children.