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== Biography ==
Fernand Emile Justin Alexandre Farssac was born on April 19, 1902, in Le Garric. His father, Auguste Farssac, was a miner, and his mother, Marie-Julienne née Fenouillet, did not have an occupation listed. In 1924, he married Ernestine, née Fournier, and they had a son, Gérard Farssac.
=== World War II ===
As a sergeant and later a chief warrant officer, he was the head of the gendarmerie in Lautrec.
During the Occupation, starting in 1940, Farssac developed friendly relations with the Rural Camp of the Jewish Scouts of France. He refused deportation orders and decided to hide the dozens of adolescents present there. Farssac successfully thwarted the Gestapo's attempts locally, hiding Jewish adolescents at least five times. Alongside these protective activities, he established the Toutyva maquis, named after his war pseudonym. Farssac spied on the Germans by wiretapping their telegraphic communications, with his son also involved in rescue operations. For instance, on the night of June 9, 1943, they urgently coordinated to hide Jews from an imminent Gestapo raid.
After some time protecting them, he reported himself as ill and went into hiding with his son, Gérard. He then trained the Jewish adolescents to join various maquis groups, training more than 70 of them. He also received parachute drops and relayed them to the maquis.
In total, he is credited with saving approximately 80 Jews.
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