Renée Bédarida
Renée Bedarida was a Frenc Resistance fighter who worked with the Lyonnais group Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness) in WWII. After the war, she wrote two books about the movement and its leader, Father Pierre Chaillet.
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Simone Michel-Lévy
During WWII, 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.
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
Paule Letty-Mouroux
As part of the French Resistance during WWII, Paule Letty-Mouroux used her position as a secretary at the Marine de Toulon in order to report the repair status of Axis ships.
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
Évelyne Sullerot
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 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.