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" Thanks in part to her support of de Gaulle’s return to power in 1958, Fourcade’s political capital had improved enough by the time of her death that she was given the noteworthy funeral at Les Invalides. But she still had one major strike against her: her identity as a woman. "

Lynne Olson , Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler


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Lynne Olson quote : Thanks in part to her support of de Gaulle’s return to power in 1958, Fourcade’s political capital had improved enough by the time of her death that she was given the noteworthy funeral at Les Invalides. But she still had one major strike against her: her identity as a woman.