MARIE-MADELEINE FOURCADE, asked what she’d done during World War II, once described herself as “the wife of an officer, the mother of a family, a member of no political party, and a Catholic.” What she failed to mention was that she had led some 3,000 agents in Alliance, the largest and most important French secret […]
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