Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine...
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sister Lise was also an SOE agent and worked with him. Claude de Baissac was born in Mauritius. His father was Marie Louis Marc de Boucherville Baissac (1878-1945)...
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that Lise de Baissac had rented. On 18 February 1944, Herbert was arrested in her apartment in Poitiers. The German Gestapo had found out that Lise de Baissac...
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Lise is a variant of the given name Lisa Lise de Baissac (1905–2004), Mauritian secret agent of the Special Operations Executive in World War II Lise...
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Female Agents (redirect from Les Femmes de l'Ombre)
director, drew inspiration from an obituary in The Times newspaper of Lise de Baissac (Lise Villameur), from Mauritius (then a British colony), one of the heroines...
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dreadful lady" and deplored what he portrayed as her seductive behaviour. Lise de Baissac, who trained in the same SOE class, said Sansom always wanted to be...
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- Roland Dowlen ACROBAT - John Starr ACTOR - Roger Landes Adele - Lisé de Baissac ADMINISTRATOR - John Allsop Agrippa - Nicholas Allington Alain - Georges...
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"Jacqueline" Madeleine Tambour Germaine Tambour Anthony Brooks, organiser Lise de Baissac, courier Marie-Thérèse Le Chêne, courier, code name "Adele" Edward...
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August Nicolas Bodington, Claude de Baissac, and Lise de Baissac returned to England via Lysander. Claude de Baissac's Scientist network, based in Bordeaux...
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Simone Segouin (category Female recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
Segouin died on 21 February 2023, at age 97. Andrée Borrel Denise Bloch Lise de Baissac Jeannette Guyot Davison, Phil (22 February 2023). "Simone Segouin,...
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SOE agent in the WRNS. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 0753193361. "Claude de Baissac - Special Operations Executive (SOE) Agents in France". nigelperrin.com...
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represented Mauritius at 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics Claude de Baissac Lise de Baissac Joanna Bérenger, politician Paul Bérenger, former Prime Minister...
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"MacLellan, Maud Lilburn (1903–1977)"; "Villameur née Boucherville Baissac, Lise Marie de Baissac (1905–2004)"; in New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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Andrée Borrel helped Aisner with the courier duties. Through courier Lise de Baissac, Déricourt also established links with the large SOE Scientist network...
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and aircraft parts associated with RAF Tempsford. Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac (Odile) were the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied...
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serve for a lengthy period in France. Andrée Borrel (1919–1944) and Lise de Baissac (1905–2004) became the first women parachuted into France on 24 September...
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Noor Inayat Khan (category École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni)
dropped into France by parachute (as were agents like Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac) were flown in on Lysanders, a light monowing transport aircraft designed...
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sent to France in 1944. The RF section was under the direction of Charles de Gaulle's Free French Government in exile with SOE lending logistical support...
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in 2014, 41,000 people born in Mauritius were resident in the UK. Lise de Baissac, heroine of the Special Operations Executive during World War II Jean-Paul...
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is carried out by Allied forces. 24 September – Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France...
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May 11 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
manager (d. 1993) 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989) 1905 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004) 1905 – Catherine Bauer Wurster...
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1905 (category CS1 Austrian German-language sources (de-at))
Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author and feminist (d. 1998) May 11 Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent, war hero (d. 2004) Catherine Bauer Wurster...
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flight with him were SOE agents (and brother and sister) Claude and Lise de Baissac who were fleeing the Prosper disaster. On his return, Bodington blamed...
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Normandy in 1944 to assassinate an SS colonel, based on the story of Lisé de Baissac Eagle Eye – 2008 film by D.J. Caruso in which an indignant computer...
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Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and microbiologist (b. 1956) 2004 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent (b. 1905) 2004 – Joel Feinberg, American...
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1942 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
established in the United States. September 24 – WWII: Andrée Borrel and Lise de Baissac become the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into occupied France...
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Pennsylvania while carrying 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) of the explosive. Born: Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent and...
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Andrée Borrel (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
the signals in the drop zone being incorrect), Borrel ("Denise") and Lise de Baissac ("Odile") became the first female SOE agents to be parachuted into...
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Deaths in March 2004 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
failure. Al Cuccinello, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants). Lise de Baissac, 98, Mauritian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during...
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Anthony Brooks (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
Brooks also had problems with another agent sent him by SOE: Lise de Baissac. De Baissac, 38 years old compared to Brook's 22 years, was an experienced...
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