A sepia image of a woman called Solange AlexandreImage source, Site Pôle Jean Moulin
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Solange Alexandre twice turned down the Légion d'Honneur before relenting in 2024

ByHugh Schofieldin Paris
  • Published34 minutes ago

One of France's last Resistance heroes from World War Two has died at the age of 104. Solange Alexandre was also a rare woman who, with her future husband, created and commanded her own unit of anti-German fighters.

After serving as a Resistance courier from 1941, three years later she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir.