Marthe Simard

""We have certainly experienced dark, nearly hopeless times," wrote another member of the external resistance, Georges Bernanos, in November 1943, "but there is more than one kind of despair—there are exhilarating despairs that act as a tonic for the soul." Marthe Simard could easily have embraced these words"."

"The fall of Paris to the Allies was imminent, just a matter of hours away."