Marie-Louise Dissard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French resistance fighter
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Place of Birth: Cahors, Occitania, France
About Marie-Louise Dissard
- Marie-Louise Dissard (6 November 1881 – July 1957) (code named "Françoise"), was a member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II.
- She initially worked with the Pat O'Leary Line, a network which helped downed Allied airmen evade German capture and return to Great Britain.
- The O'Leary Line was first headed by Ian Garrow and later by Albert Guérisse.
- After their arrests and the destruction of the O'Leary Line by the German Gestapo in 1943, Dissard recreated an escape network called the Francoise Line.
- She helped more than 250 Allied airmen escape occupied France and return to Great Britain.
- She received financial assistance from the British intelligence agency, MI9.
- Dissard was honored with the Legion of Honor by France, the George Medal by the United Kingdom, and the Medal of Freedom by the United States.
- She shares the distinction of being one of very few women to head World War II resistance organizations in France, another prominent woman leader being Marie-Madeleine Fourcade.
- Andrée de Jongh, head of the Comet Line which operated in France, was Belgian.
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