Mathilde Carre was born in France in 1910 (Spartacus) .Carre started as a nurse but was then recruited as a spy for France in 1940 (Spartacus). She became a triple agent female spy for Germany,Britain,and France .She started off as an agent for France. In the French underground, she was known under the code name “Cat”. She picked up information from the conversations with the German officers (Spartacus) . Carre was an assistant in the Resistance Movement. This was when the French were fighting with the Nazi Germans. She also helped coordinate the Resistance Movement . “Cat” was sent to London and gave highly valuable information on what the germans were doing . She contacted London daily to report new information (chicagotribunearchives). …show more content…
In 1949, The French sentenced her to death (chicagotribunearchives) . Eventually her sentence was demolished and she was freed in 1954. No one actually knows who Carre was working for . Was she working for Britain? Was she working for France? Was she working for Germany? Was Carre an independent spy? The questions are all still up to debate. It seems as though she did this all for her own personal benefit. and amusement . Carre made an impression she was an independent spy that was fooling around.She betrayed all of her forman comrades . The events that follow do not make sense to any degree . Her intentions became extremely unclear when she started working with the frenchman underground spy “Lucas”. They had a system together which did not make any sense. “Lucas” had a similar working mindset like Carre . Their mission was known as one of the most bizarre events in WWII . Carre betrayed everyone she was working with . She started with betraying Britain and France when she was captured . This may have not been her fault because some sources say she was tortured into being a spy for the German cause . Carre did have a chance to not allow the Germans to ruin Britain and she had a chance to work with Britain again when she started working with Lucas . She ended with betraying the german cause with her mysterious last mission. In
The Comtesse de Tournay, is an amazing mother and wife. Her top concern when she finally escapes war ridden France and makes it safely to England is to get her husband M. le Comte Tournay de Basserive safe to England as well; however, she knows that her children need her more. She left her husband behind because her children refused to leave the terror that is France without her. The men in the league of the Scarlet Pimpernel assure her that they will bring the Compt to England safely and the comtesse is overjoyed to
Was the Terror of 1793/4 inherent from the revolutions outset or was it the product of exceptional circumstance?
The letter never made it to her before she died. She did many things for theUnion army when they were basically at her doorstep. She filled their canteens, she baked them bread,and she made them food. She died whilst preparing bread for Union soldiers.
As child, Margaret was raised primarily by her mother and grandmother; her father had been taken hostage in Dijon, Burgundy when she was only a few years old. With her mother in charge of her education, Margaret was able to study with the same tutors who taught her brothers until the age of fift...
And in my opinion, and as my points have shown, Natalie Davis made up a tale of what happened, ignoring the actual story that had been recorded by one of the lead characters who was there at the time, Jean de Coras. While her points had good merit, there was little evidence besides her opinion and suspicion that backed her up. Bertrande de Rols was deceived by this man, just as everyone else was. Whether she enjoyed her time spent with Arnaud is not important, it is whether or not she was fooled. While there were many who were suspicious, and many who were uncertain of Bertrande’s innocence, there was not a majority that truly believed she was a co-conspirator.
However, what really frames Francine du Plessix Gray’s biography is not so much the “fin du dix huitième siècle” but the “fin du vingtième siècle” and the “reality” material from Sade’s life that made it possible to represent the Marquis, his sons, his wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and uncle as so many of the people who populate the running narrative of criminals, deadbeat dads, incestuous relatives, date-raping playboys, and battered women that fill soap operas, day-time talk, women’s magazines, talk radio, and the tabloids. This paper, then, explores Sade’s biography not as a narrative of (the Marquis de Sade’s) his life, but as a narrative that pleases today’s reader because it serves up a voyeur’s view of (in) his “dysfunctional” family life “at home” that we are all too familiar with. This becomes abundantly apparent when du Plessix-Gray’s rendering of the Marquis and the Marquise’s lives are superimposed over the récit of lives that we read about all the time in the popular press and observe in television soaps and other series. Ultimately, we are interested in what such a reading, writing and representation of Sade’s life does to Sade’s persona and status, both in the world of letters, but more importantly, in the world at large.
Popular culture depicts Medieval chivalry as a glamorous and high time for women, with knights bending their knees in worship to them in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and the fairness and virtue of women being celebrated in literature. Chivalry is often understood as the elevation of the lady fair, with men taking upon themselves the task of protecting and defending women. In fact, though, this was not an elevation of women but a limitation of their freedom and an undermining even of their intelligence and strength of will. Medieval chivalry, in essence, subordinated women to men while claiming to elevate women. In Lanval and Laustic, women are shown to have a subordinate status to men in three ways: being painted as temptresses, being subject to protection from men, and being subservient to orders from men.
December 19th, 1778- Marks the birth of daughter her daughter Marie-Thérèse Charlott. She was born at Versailles after difficulties in labor, and given the title “Madame Royale”.
“Père Duchesne, no. 313”. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1973. Marquis de Ferreriès. Correspondence inédite. “The Réveillon Riot (28 April 1789)”.
Because she enjoyed war and was a fierce warrior she used her intelligence for military strategy
As a work of history, I do believe that in Madeleine Masson’s book Christine SOE Agent & Churchill’s Favorite Spy is not only an interesting read on a powerful woman, but also an accurate representation of the historical person as well. Madeleine Masson studied history and philosophy at the university of Sorbonne in Paris. She later gained a Ph. D. in philosophy before she went on to study art and humanities in Munich. Her degrees did have an effect on how this book is as a work of history because her credentials give her more creditably to write on historical events and people such as Christine
Anne Robert Jaques Turgot, baron l' Aulne, was born in Paris on May 10, 1727 to a noble French family of Normandy. Following in the footsteps of his ancestors, who had furnished the state with numerous public officials, Turgot would achieve public renown as Intendent of Limoges and later as Controller General of all France. Although Turgot ended his public career in unfortunate circumstances, being dismissed by Louis XVI for ineffectiveness, his political theories became a major influence in the remaining years of the Old Regime. The depth of Turgot’s economic thought was not recognized at the time because it largely went against what the ruling aristocracy wanted to hear. His clairvoyance is much more fully noted in light of the last two centuries. Furthermore, Turgot was one of the King’s last controller-generals before the French Revolution ended the monarchy. When his political and economic ideals are considered against this backdrop their importance as well as their contradictory nature become apparent.
Anne Frank was a thirteen year old Jewish girl who was forced into hiding in 1942. Her family and another family, the Van Daans, hid in the back of her father, Otto Frank's office building in what they called the "Secret Annex" for the next two years, until they were discovered by a Nazi group called the Gestapo and arrested. It was during her time in the Secret Annex that Anne wrote in a diary that she had named Kitty, telling it of her experiences in the the annex, reported the position of the war and its most memorible events, and shared her personal feelings on the situation. The diary became an outlet throug...
(Walker p.62) After deciding that she wanted to do everything she could do to help, she went on to go through the training to become an undercover agent and later started working out in the field with the code name Lise. Hastings article on Odette Sansom also started out by giving a little background on Odette’s life and then went into discussing her work during the war. It explained how Odette almost did not even receive her George Cross award for her work because there was so much speculation from others in the SOE who thought there was no reason why she deserved the award.
She is very hostile when first coming into contact with the plane crash survivors. Going as far as to trap and torturer one of them. Again the name choice is so fitting to the character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) philosopher was of French origin.