FRANCE Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Fourcade ​

• FORENAME

Marie-Madeleine ​

• UNIT

Resistance (Alliance Reseau) ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Commandeur de la Legion dHonneur ​

• PLACE

France 1940-44 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 8.11.1909 Marseilles (as Marie-Madeleine Bridou)​

married 1929 (2 children) (dissolved)​

employed with a publishing company,Paris prewar​

Alliance Reseau 1940 (leader May 1941)​

arrested 10.11.1942​

escaped to London​

worked through MI6​

returned to France June 1944​

arrested and escaped a second time​

remarried (3 more children)​

Vice President,National Association of Medal-holders 1947​

Vice President,International Union of Resistance and Deportation 1960​

author of memoirs ""L'Arche de Noe" (Noah's Ark) 1968​

biography "Marie-Madeleine Foucade,un Chef de la Resistance" (Michele Cointet) 2006​

died 20.7.1989 Val-de-Grace,France​

Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise,Paris ​

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