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Louise de Bettignies: the pro-British ‘Joan of Arc’

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Louise de Bettignies assisted the Allies in the Great War by establishing a vital information network in northern France. Patricia Stoughton recounts her extraordinary bravery.

The northern French town of Saint- Amand-les-Eaux is preparing to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth in July 1880 of the First World War spy, Louise de Bettignies, a woman who was a heroine for Britain too.

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