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  1. Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
    17: ... a [[Catholic]], but that didn't seem to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of...
    25: Her death near [[Sallanches, France]] in 1934 was from [[leukemia]], almost certainly...
  2. Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
    3: ..., [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
    5: ...to a middle-class merchant family in [[Paris]], [[France]], and began studying [[mathematics]] at age thir...
  3. Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
    27: ...nd its humanitarian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the Inter...
  4. Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
    1: ... [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red ...
    10: Jane Delano died in [[France]] while on a Red Cross mission and was interred i...
  5. Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
    8: ...e uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publique]...
  6. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    3: ...etimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
    7: ... successful tour of [[Europe]], she returned to [[France]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], s...
    9: ...e most successful American entertainer working in France—whereas in the [[United States|U.S.]], she ...
    13: ...ular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who occupied France during [[World War II]] were hesitant to touch he...
    15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same rep...
  7. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
  8. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    48: ...led "Angels", "Sweet Dreams", "Snow Cherries from France", and "Mary".
  9. Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
    3: ... the convent's Mother Superior. After the fall of France to [[Germany]] in [[World War II]], she made the ...
    7: ...h her portrait on a [[List of people on stamps of France|postage stamp]] and a street bearing her name in ...
  10. Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
    36: ... architecture|Gothic]] churches in the south of [[France]]. Though her bones were scattered at the [[Frenc...
  11. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    2: ...s VII]] to drive the [[England|English]] out of [[France]], and he gave her authority over the [[army]] in...
    4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Year...
    7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a str...
    38: ...humb|right|200px|Joan of Arc statue in Marseille, France.]]She was first brought to [[Saint-Ouen]] cemeter...
    76: During [[World War II]], both the [[Vichy France|Vichy Regime]] and the [[French resistance]] used...
  12. Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
    3: ...'Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] in [[Ravensbr? ...
    5: ...ew]]ish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by the [[Gestapo]]. In...
    7: ... wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
    9: ...bert Benoist]], she was dropped back into central France. Working in the [[Nantes]] area, they re-establis...
    11: ... of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] depart魥nt of France.
  13. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    10: ...formation Agency | U.S. Information Agency]] in [[France]].
    12: == Post-war France ==
  14. Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
    7: ...red at a time when the war was not going well for France, and for the French government it was very conven...
  15. Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
    5: ...istance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her...
    9: Churchill's operation in France was betrayed by a double agent, and Odette and Ch...
  16. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    3: ...s in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capable ...
    15: ...rench-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Pol...
    30: ... by linking [[Italy|Italian]] [[partisan]]s and [[France|French]] [[Maquis]] for joint operations against ...
    32: ...Allied "[[Operation Anvil]]" landings in southern France, Cammaerts, [[Xan Fielding]] — another SOE ...
    36: ...tyna Skarbek's contributions to the liberation of France were recognized with a [[Croix de Guerre]].
  17. Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
    5: ..., France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalised in the film ''[[Carve Her...
    7: ...to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted into France by the SOE, near [[Cherbourg]] she reorganized a ...
    9: ...gland and quickly was sent back to [[Limoges]] in France where she coordinated the local [[Maquis]] to sab...
    13: ... of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll of H...
  18. Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
    13: After World War II, she spent four years in a [[France|French]] [[detention camp]]. There were accusatio...
  19. Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
    2: ... [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
    14: Sarah Bernhardt was made a member of France's [[Legion of Honor]] in 1914.
    16: ...s buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France.
  20. Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
    23: ...October 6]], [[1989]] in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]], following a long battle with [[breast cancer]]...

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