Olson - Madame Fourcades Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led Frances Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

GEORGES LOUSTAUNAU-LACAU A former French military intelligence officer and aide to Marshal Philippe Ptain, he founded what would become the Alliance intelligence network in the fall of 1940.

MARIE-MADELEINE (MRIC) FOURCADE Originally Loustaunau-Lacaus deputy, she took over command of Alliance in July 1941 and led it until the end of the war.

LON FAYE The former deputy chief of the French air force in North Africa, he became Fourcades second in command in January 1942.

PAUL BERNARD A banking executive and old friend of Fourcades, who succeeded her as head of Alliance operations when she traveled to London in the summer of 1943.

MAURICE COUSTENOBLE A former air force pilot who was one of Fourcades first recruits and became one of her key lieutenants.

HENRI SCHAERRER A daredevil former naval officer who, along with Coustenoble, was one of Fourcades closest deputies in the early days of the network.

JEAN BOUTRON A survivor of the British attack on the French naval fleet at Mers-el-Kbir in July 1940 and another key figure in Alliances initial operations, who took an undercover job as Vichys deputy naval attach in Madrid.

CHARLES BERNIS Regarded as the leading theoretician of French military intelligence, he coordinated and supervised the flow of information sent by Alliance to the British. He later was the networks chief in the south of France.

GABRIEL RIVIRE Burly and ebullient, he headed Alliances operation in Marseille and ran a fruit and vegetable shop as cover for his clandestine activities.

MILE AUDOLY A Marseille grain merchant who was in charge of collecting intelligence about cargoes and ship movements in the Mediterranean.

JACQUES BRIDOU A former Olympic bobsled racer and Fourcades brother, he served as Alliances first emissary to MI6 in London.

HENRI MOUREN Chief of the Saint-Nazaire shipyard in Brittany, he provided the network with a detailed map of the important German submarine base there.

ANTOINE HUGON A garage owner and chief of Alliances operations in Brittany, who delivered Mourens map of Saint-Nazaire to Fourcade.

LUCIEN VALLET A young former army officer who served as the networks chief radio operator in the first year of its existence.

GAVARNI (FIRST NAME UNKNOWN) A hot-tempered former air force officer who worked briefly as Fourcades chief of staff.

JEAN SAINTENY One of Alliances most skilled and daring agents, he ran its sector in Normandy, which played a major role in the success of D-Day.

MONIQUE BONTINCK Fourcades young personal courier and assistant, whose demure appearance was at odds with her bold fearlessness.

FERDINAND RODRIGUEZ A British radio operator sent to Alliance by MI6, he, along with Bontinck and Faye, was among Fourcades closest colleagues and confidants in 194243.

ERNEST SIEGRIST A former Paris policeman who was in charge of Alliances security and was also a master forger of identity cards and other documents.

COL. DOUARD KAUFFMANN A former air force colleague of Lon Fayes, he was head of Alliances sector in the Dordogne.

MAURICE DE MACMAHON, THE DUKE OF MAGENTA A colorful flying ace and scion of one of Frances most illustrious noble families, who was put in charge of Alliance operations in the countrys occupied zone.

LUCIEN POULARD An air force pilot recruited by Faye, he served as Fayes adjutant and then as chief of Alliances sector in Brittany.

PIERRE DALLAS Another air force recruit of Fayes, he headed Alliances Avia unit, which handled the logistics of parachute drops and aircraft ferry service from Britain.

MARGUERITE BROUILLET A social worker who sheltered Fourcade and other Alliance agents from Vichy and German police and later became a close friend of Fourcades and a key Alliance operative herself.

PHILIPPE KOENIGSWERTHER A former spy for the BCRA, the Free French intelligence agency, who became head of Alliance operations in Bordeaux.

GEORGES LAMARQUE A brilliant young mathematician, he ran an Alliance subnetwork called the Druids that covered all of France and played a major role in keeping the faltering network alive in the last two years of the war.

JEANNIE ROUSSEAU One of Lamarques Druids, she was responsible for one of the greatest Allied intelligence coups of the war through her collection of information about Germanys V-1 and V-2 terror weapons.

ROBERT LYNEN The most celebrated child actor in France in the 1930s, he was recruited by Fourcade as a courier in Alliances Marseille headquarters.