Born: Unknown, France (assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: France
Also known as: NA
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As Margaret L. Rossiter notes in her study, Women in the Resistance, some women that have gained attention for their heroic acts managed to preform them while nonchalantly preforming their day jobs. Mme Marguerite Claeys collected information from agents who posed as customers at the company she owned with her husband— all without his knowledge. Simone Michel Lévy used her job in the Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Service (PTT) to obtain intelligence about the Germans that she managed to send to London under the code name of Emma. These women all took enormous risks and many of them were eventually caught and arrested by the German police.