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Elsie Eleanor Verity

“The First Lady of the motor trade” in early to mid-20th century Britain

Eleanor Annie Lamson

The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.

When she learned that the men of Parral were unwilling to fight Pershing’s troops in 1916, she assembled a group of women and children to meet Major Frank Tompkins and his soldiers at the city limits, forcing them to retreat

Claire Lacombe

Lacombe came from the provinces to be an actress in Paris but was drawn to the French Revolutionary cause.

Célia Bertin

Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.

Claire Chevrillon

After the increasingly harsh laws were imposed on Jewish citizens during WWII, she joined the resistance most notably encoding and decoding messages between the Free French in London and de Gaulle’s Paris delegation.