Marguerite Bervoets

Marguerite Bervoets (6March 19147August 1944) was a Belgian poet, teacher and member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II. She was arrested while carrying out resistance work and executed in Wolfenbüttel prison, in Germany.

Biography Marguerite Bervoets was born in La Louvière. She was a graduate in philosophy and literature, and a poet. At the time of the German invasion of Belgium she was working as a teacher in Tournai. After the fall of Belgium to Nazi Germany, Bervoets began publishing the underground resistance paper "La Deliverance".

On 8 August 1942 Bervoets and another resistance member, Cécile Detournay, went to the edge of Chièvres Airfield for the purpose of photographing newly installed anti-aircraft guns. Bervoets' family did not learn she had died until July 1945. She is buried in Mons communal cemetery. On 17 November 1946, an inauguration in the courtyard of the École Moyenne de la rue de Bouvy in La Louvière, a monument dedicated to Marguerite Bervoets and Laurette Demaret, former students of this establishment. A street of Mons also bears her name, as well as a street of Forest (in Brussels) and a street of Guyancourt (near Paris). It exhibited several of her personal artefacts, including her final letter to her parents.