Marie Drouet

Marie Drouet (born Marie-Ernestine Juillard, April 17, 1885 in Chartèves – November 19, 1963 in Bétheny) was a French heroine of World War I.

Biography Born April 17, 1885, in Chartèves in the department of Aisne, she is the third daughter of Auguste Juillard and Victorine Marchand.

She married Charles Drouet on January 15, 1906, in Bétheny where she lived

World War I civil heroine Throughout the conflict, avoiding French and German encampments, she transported the wounded from the battlefield to the hospital using her plow and donkey. In September 2018, on the occasion of Heritage Days, the Association of Friends of Old Bétheny, organized an exhibition dedicated to her at the Bétheny museum to commemorate her rescue of many wounded. In 2018, during the commemorations of the Armistice of 11 November 1918, a tribute was paid to her in front of the monument to the dead of Bétheny.