Solange Sanfourche (18 July 1922 – 12 June 2013), alias Marie-Claude, was a French Resistance fighter in Dordogne during World War II.
Life and work She was born in Carsac-Aillac (Dordogne), France.
In December 1945, Sanfourche married in Périgueux, Édouard Valéry (1924–2010), commissioner of operations in the Dordogne region for the resistance movement during World War II.
Known by the code name Marie-Claude, she worked as a typist, secretary, mail carrier and liaison officer. During the German occupation, the Sanfourche family hid and housed dozens of clandestine freedom fighters in Périgueux who were wanted by the Gestapo Michaël Hambrecht took under his command the unsavory North African phalanx, which would become notorious above all for its countless atrocities and massacres those at Brantôme en Périgord, Mussidan, and Cornille or the militia of the occupied-French government Vichy France, led by marshal Philippe Pétain.
Sanfourche died at 90 on 12 June 2013, in Sarlat-la-Canéda (Dordogne).
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