Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is the most amazing woman you’ve never heard of - she helped to found and then assumed leadership of one of the most effective Intelligence Networks in occupied France. She was hunted by Nazis, helped a General escape on a submarine and managed thousands of underground agents who were spying on France’s German occupiers in WW2.
Sources/Further Reading
Olsen, Lynn: Madame Fourcade’s Secret War
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine: Noah’s Ark
Lester, Natasha: The Forgotten Woman Who Helped Make D-Day Possible https://natashalester.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-woman-who-helped-make
Wikipedia: Marie-Madeleine Fourcade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Madeleine_Fourcade
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