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Resistant in 1940, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the only woman recognized as the head of a large French resistance network, the Alliance network.

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In July 1944, the Gestapo pushed in Marie-Madeleine Fourcade’s door while hunting for French Resistance spies. They shoved her aside, ransacking her apartment for information about an important member of the Resistance cell known as “Alliance.” Little did they know its ringleader was Fourcade herself. The inability to recognize—let alone even imagine—a woman spymaster wasn’t just a German shortcoming: throughout Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, the same proves true of men on all sides of World War II. And until recently, suggests author Lynne Olson, true of the rest of us as well.

Olson’s book is part of a recent wave of works that highlight the women of World War II espionage (see “Book Briefs,” below). But Fourcade’s story stands out: from 1941 to 1945, she led the largest and longest-lived spy network in occupied France. Despite her outsized contribution to the French Resistance, Fourcade was not among those honored at World War II’s end; a longstanding political rivalry between Charles de Gaulle and Alliance’s founder, former intelligence officer Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, ma

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(1) When the Gestapo discovered about the activities of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade she was forced to send her children to Switzerland on their own.

The escape route was blocked and the frontier bristled with incessant German patrols. Driven from pillar to post the children finally made their way across the frontier alone. At the last staging post the peasants to whom they had been entrusted had simply pointed out the direction in which the barbed wire ran, miles from their farm. My son, a future officer, came through the test with flying colours and saved his sister. He was twelve and she was ten.

(2) Claude Dansey was the MI6 officer who brought Marie-Madeleine Fourcade to England in July, 1943.

You've gone on long past the safety limits. According to the law of averages, an underground leader can't last more than six months. You've lasted over two and a half years. It's sheer witchcraft.

(3) New York Times (21st July, 1989)

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, a French Resistance hero who was once smuggled out of the country
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Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
Resistant in 1940, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was the only woman recognized as the head of a large French resistance network, the Alliance network. Michèle Cointet, her biographer, tells of her extraordinary journey.

Marie-Madeleine Bridou escaped from the conformism of the bourgeois background she was born into in 1909. She lived with her two children in Paris, far from her husband Edward Méric, an Indigenous Affairs officer in Morocco. She divided her time between "Radio-Cité" and Commander Loustaunau-Lacau's General Secretariat of anti-communist and anti-German publications. Loustaunau-Lacau was the founder of the Corvignolles network and La Spirale and the person who initiated her into undercover activities. The love of a mythical homeland gained from a childhood in Shanghai where her father was the General Maritime Messaging Agent and... "honourable correspondent" and a lack of illusions about Marshal Petain inspired her in June 1940 to believe that since the men had put down their weapons, it was up to the women to take them up.
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