Onorata Rodiani
15th century Italian painter and soldier
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Lise Lesèvre
A member of the French Resistance, she was brutally tortured by Klaus Barbie, the so-called “Butcher of Lyon,” after being captured with clandestine documents.
Louise-Reine Audu
A fruit seller who was active in the French Revolution, including the Women’s March on Versailles and the storming of the Tuileries Palace. She was singled out to present her grievances to King Louis XVI along with a small delegation of other women.
Madeleine Riffaud
Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during WWII
Peggy Hodges
Defence electronics engineer
Pauline Gower
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand joined the French Resistance as a teenager during World War II, and would go on to serve as first lady from 21 May 1981 to 17 May 1995 when he later become president of France.
Évelyne Sullerot
Frech Resistance memebr who later co-founded Maternité Heureuse, an organisation to promote birth control, and developed what is believed to be the world’s the first women’s studies course in 1967 at Paris Nanterre University.
Françoise de Boissieu
French Resistance fighter in WWII
Isabel Townsend Pell
American socialite who joined the French Resistance during World War II — one of the few women who was part of the Maquis — purportedly due to her good aim.