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WWII French resistance operative
Solange Sanfourche
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WWII French resistance operative
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Female
Place of birth
Carsac-Aillac, Dordogne, New Aquitaine, France
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Place of death
Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne, New Aquitaine, France
Age
90 years
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Spouse:
Édouard Valéry (December 1945-15 September 2010)
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Solange Sanfourche (18 July 1922 – 12 June 2013), alias Marie-Claude, was a French resistance fighter in Dordogne during World War II.
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She was born in Carsac-Aillac (Dordogne), France.
In December 1945, Sanfourche married in Périgueux, Édouard Valéry (1924–2010), commissioner of operations in the Dordogne region for the resistance movement during World War II.
Known by the code name Marie-Claude, she worked as a typist, secretary, mail carrier and liaison officer. During the German occupation, the Sanfourche family hid and housed dozens of clandestine freedom fighters in Périgueux who were wanted by the Gestapo or the militia of the occupied-French government.
Sanfourche died at 90 on 12 June 2013, in Sarlat-la-Canéda (Dordogne).
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