Solange Sanfourche (18 July 1922 – 12 June 2013), alias Marie-Claude, was a

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

fighter in Dordogne during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Life and work

She was born in

Carsac-Aillac Carsac-Aillac (; oc, Carsac e Alhac) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population Notable people * Marius Rossillon, aka O'Galop (1867-1946), creator of the Bibendum Michelin, died in Carsa ...

(Dordogne), France. In December 1945, Sanfourche married in

Périgueux Périgueux (, ; oc, Peireguers or ) is a communes of France, commune in the Dordogne departments of France, department, in the administrative regions of France, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Périgueux i ...

, Édouard Valéry (1924–2010), commissioner of operations in the

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named af ...

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 German-occupied Europe refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly occupied and civil-occupied (including puppet governments) by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 an ...

, the Sanfourche family hid and housed dozens of clandestine freedom fighters in Périgueux who were wanted by the

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...

or the militia of the occupied-French government. Sanfourche died at 90 on 12 June 2013, in

Sarlat-la-Canéda Sarlat-la-Canéda (; oc, Sarlat e La Canedat), commonly known as Sarlat, is a commune in the southwestern French department of Dordogne, a part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Sarlat and La Canéda were distinct towns until merged into one commune in 196 ...

(Dordogne).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanfourche, Solange 1922 births 2013 deaths People from Dordogne French people of World War II Female resistance members of World War II French Resistance members