Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100

By Sam Roberts Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.

Source: The New York Times

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