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One of France's last Resistance heroes from World War Two has died at the age of 104. Solange Alexandre was also a rare woman who, with her future husband, created and commanded her own unit of anti-German fighters. After serving as a Resistance courier from 1941, three years later she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir. With some 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered Allied airmen and, after the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day in 1944, joined the fight against the occupying German forces. President Emmanuel Macron was among many to pay tribute to Alexandre, after her death was announced at a nursing home in Le Mans. "She said she only ever did her duty. But her duty was our freedom.
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