Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (; 8 November 1909 – 20 July 1989) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau ("Navarre"), during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.

Early life Born Marie-Madeleine Bridou in Marseille,

Wartime resistance Fourcade worked with Navarre on his magazine L'ordre national, an espionage publication. Navarre believed espionage to be crucial in the war effort. Navarre recruited Fourcade for a network of spies and to work on L'ordre national. She was barely 30 at this point. Her first mission for Navarre was to create sections of unoccupied France, then recruit and assign an agent to these sections. This network became the "Alliance" (later called "Noah's Ark"). He had picked Fourcade to lead the movement he had started.