26/04/2025
Norwich, GB 13 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

MADELEINE RIFFAUD, aged 100

A French resistance fighter who was tortured by the Gestapo, she played a key role in the liberation. She later served as a journalist in various war zones.

PHILIPPE DE GAULLE, aged 102

A war hero, admiral and politician who was denied deserved honours , his whole career and life was over shadowed by having an extremely famous father.

SIMONE SEGOUIN, aged 97

French Resistance partisan who carried out her work with a stolen bike and stolen gun, she was made famous by an American magazine and fought at the liberation of Paris