She was cut down in her prime at 105. She was a resistance leader in Brest. Among other things she set up a network of safe houses for escaped POWs and downed airmen, and was responsible for 102 allied flyers escaping occupied France. She got them to the beach and made arrangements for a pickup. She was a classy lady ...
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