WWII resister dies at 104

French Resistance fighter Solange Alexandre died on November 8 at age 104. Using the code name “Corlay,” she worked as a liaison agent and spy before founding and leading the roughly 30-member Pas-de-Bœuf maquis group in 1944. The group sabotaged German operations, sheltered Allied airmen and helped liberate Tours and the surrounding region; Alexandre later declined the Légion d’Honneur twice, saying she had “only done her duty.”

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