French Resistance Fighter Solange Alexandre Dies at 104
Solange Alexandre French Resistance death at 104: Solange Alexandre, a French Resistance fighter who led a maquis of about thirty men in Touraine, has died on Sunday at age 104, according to Le Figaro, which describes her wartime leadership and postwar life.
Solange Alexandre French Resistance death at 104, Digi Mart USA News (France): Solange Alexandre, a French Resistance fighter, died on Sunday at the age of 104, according to Le Figaro. After the German invasion of 1940, she said the occupation had “put hatred in her heart,” and she naturally joined the Resistance, becoming the leader of a maquis in Touraine with about thirty men under her command.
Born Solange Dubuisson on September 9, 1922, in Mamers, Sarthe, she heard General de Gaulle’s Appeal of June 18, 1940, on a homemade radio built by her friend Michel Gadois. While still studying in Le Mans to become a schoolteacher, she worked under the code name “Corlay” as a liaison agent and spy, traveling by bicycle to carry messages to towns including Laval, Alençon and Rennes.
In 1944 she helped create the “Pas-de-Boeuf” maquis at Ruillé-sur-Loir in Sarthe. The group took part in the liberation of Tours and its region, and she ended the war with the rank of lieutenant in the French Forces of the Interior (FFI).
She remained reluctant to discuss her wartime actions, saying that many people had done far more.
After the war she followed her husband, Guy Deliot, a former gendarme, to several postings, moving seventeen times before his death on duty in Martinique in 1960. She returned to Le Mans, resumed teaching and was active in the ADMD, the association for the right to die with dignity.
She twice declined the Legion of Honour, saying she had only done her duty.
When the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir proposed naming its central square after her, she hesitated before accepting, saying she wanted to celebrate her 100th birthday and, above all, so that no one would forget.
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