Born: 2 August 1907, France
Died: 12 October 2011
Country most active: France
Also known as: Christiane Clouet (code name)
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Women in the French Resistance: Claire Chevrillon, code name Christian Clouet. Chevrillon came from a family of assimilated Jews. After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation. She spent four months in prison after being betrayed and wrote her memoirs entitled, Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance.