French wartime resistance heroine Solange Alexandre dies aged 104
Summary
Solange Alexandre, one of France’s last surviving World War Two Resistance fighters, has died at 104 in a nursing home in Le Mans. She joined the Resistance as a courier in 1941, later helped lead a 30-member unit that carried out sabotage and sheltered Allied airmen, and received France’s Légion d’Honneur in 2024.Key Facts
- Alexandre was born Solange Dubuisson in 1922 in France’s Sarthe department.
- She began working as a Resistance courier in 1941, carrying messages and gathering information by bicycle.
- In 1944, she and her future husband, Guy Déliot, formed the Pas-de-Boeuf Resistance network near Ruillé-sur-Loir.
- The group had about 30 men and carried out sabotage, sheltered Allied airmen, and fought German forces after the Normandy landings.
- Alexandre took part in the liberation of Tours in September 1944 and ended the war as a sub-lieutenant in the French Interior Forces.
- She later worked as a teacher and followed her husband, a gendarmerie officer, to French overseas territories.
- She declined the Légion d’Honneur twice before accepting it in 2024.
- French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Alexandre after her death was announced.
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