Word: vomecourt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a while, Mathilde met a gaunt Frenchman named Pierre de Vomecourt, who also worked for the underground. He asked her to work with him. When he found out that she was playing a double game, she persuaded De Vomecourt that she had important information which the British should have. She wanted to get to England, she said, out of the Boche's reach. With some difficulty the British intelligence spirited Mathilde and De Vomecourt out of France, and La Chatte sat out the rest of the war in a British jail. One British operative said...
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