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Marguerite Claeys

As part of the French Resistance during WWII, Mme Marguerite Claeys collected information from agents who posed as customers at the company she owned with her husband— all without his knowledge.

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

One of the most famous female resistants during WWII and the only woman to be made chef de résistance

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.

Madeleine Riffaud

Madeleine Riffaud was a French war correspondent and poet who worked with the French Resistance during 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.

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.

Jeanne Berthomier

Jeanne Berthomier, who was a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works in Paris, managed to deliver top-secret information typed on tissue paper to the Alliance chief, Marie Madeleine Fourcade.