Talk:Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

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Marie-madeleine Fourcade (1909-1989) was, during the Second World war in France, the person in charge for the resistance network Alliance after the arrest of the chief of network, George Loustaunau-Lacau. Stopped with its staff on November 10, 1942, it escapes and can join London from where it directs the network under the pseudonym "Hedgehog" until the German capitulation.

In 1945, it creates and takes the chair of Friendly Association Alliance. It takes care then of the homologation of its 3.000 agents, survivors or missing, as well as social oeuvres and publication of the "memorial of Alliance" dedicated to the 429 died of the network. Published in 1968 pennies the title "L'Arche de Noé", the historial of the network is as for him a true best-seller.

It chairs it Committee of Action of Resistance since December 1962 as well as the jury of honor of Maurice Papon in 1981. Mother of five children, commander of Legion of Honor, vice-president of the International Union of Resistance and the Deportation since 1960 and the national association of the medal-holders of Resistance (since 1947), member of the L.I.C.R.A., Marie-Madeleine Fourcade is representing at the assembly of the European Communities (1981-1982) and chairs in 1982 the Defense of the interests of France in Europe. Its last combat were for the payment of the Libanaise crisis and the Barbie lawsuit in Lyon.

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade dies it July 20 1989 at the military Hospital of Val de Grace in Paris ; the government and the rare survivors of the network pay to him an exceptional homage on July 26 at the time of its funerals in the Saint-Louis church of Invalid and its burial to Cemetery of the Père-Lachaise in Paris.

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  • L'Arche de Noé - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade - 1968
  • Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, a chief of the french Resistance - Michèle Cointet - 2006
  • Internet site - Fr

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