# French Resistance leader Solange Alexandre dies at 104

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/french-wartime-resistance-heroine-solange-alexandre-dies-aged-104/
- Published: 2026-11-10T13:23:54+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T16:42:46+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC World (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdx3x7wg941o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Europe, World

## Key points

- Solange Alexandre, French Resistance heroine, has died aged 104.
- She led a network of about 30 fighters near Ruillé-sur-Loir.
- After twice refusing France’s highest honour, she accepted it in 2024.

## Summary

Solange Alexandre, one of France’s last surviving Resistance figures from the Second World War, has died aged 104. A rare woman to command her own unit, she helped organise opposition to German occupation, sheltered Allied airmen and took part in the fight for liberation.

She began as a courier in 1941, carrying messages and gathering information by bicycle under the code-name Corlay. In 1944 she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near Ruillé-sur-Loir, leading around 30 men in sabotage and other operations. She later served as a sub-lieutenant in the French Interior Forces and twice declined the Légion d’Honneur before accepting it in 2024.

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