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 of the Resistance network "Alliance", after the arrest of the previous chief George Loustaunau-Lacau. After being arrested with her companions on November 10, 1942, she escaped from prison and managed to find her way to London, where she commanded the network under the pseudonym "Hedgehog", until Germany surrendered.

In 1945, she created and directed the Friendly Association Alliance. She organized the certification of the network's 3,000 surviving members, as well as casualties. She also provided social assistance and wrote a "memorial of Alliance" dedicated to the 429 members of the network who were killed. It was published in 1968 under the title "Noah's Arc" and became a very popular best-seller.

Fourcade chaired the Resistannce Action Committee from December 1962, as well as the Jury of Honor of Maurice Papon in 1981. She was the mother of five children, a Commander of the Legion of Honor, as well as becoming the Vice-President of the International Union of the Resistance and the Deportation in 1960 and the National Association of Medal-holders of the Resistance (as of 1947), and a member of L.I.C.R.A. Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was a representative at the Assembly of the European Communities in 1981-1982. In 1982 she chaired the Defense of French Interests in Europe. The last struggles of her life were for the settlement of the Lebanese crisis and her role in the trial of Klaus Barbie in Lyon.

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade died on July 20, 1989, at the Val-de-Grâce Military Hospital in Paris. The French government and the network's few remaining survivors paid homage to her at the funeral on July 26 held in the Church of Saint-Louis in the Hôtel des Invalides, and at her burial in the Cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris.

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65.130.42.220 (talk) 19:08, 20 July 2024 (UTC)==Something missing...== No mention of La Cagoule? Angus McLellan (Talk) 00:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I just finished reading about Marie Madeleine Fourcade in Lynne Olson's 2019 book "Madame Fourcade's Secret War". I am shocked there is no active page that describes her work (in greater detail) nor any substantive narrative of the French spy network she created called "Alliance." Life is such that we should give credit where it is due but there's no mention of the importance of their active network and spying efforts that Fourcade instigated.