And then there was Christine …

… to rival Carton de Wiart.

“Christine’s most jaw-dropping act of heroism would occur in August 1944: with a bounty on her head and her face having graced ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters, she strolled into a Gestapo-controlled French prison and, posing as another woman entirely, secured an interview with a corruptible gendarme. Every iota of her charm and resourcefulness coming into play, Christine successfully arranged to break out three colleagues—including her lover du jour, the 29-year-old Belgian-British agent Francis Cammaerts—who were about to be executed. ‘Good reading,’ an SOE officer wrote on the cover note of Cammaerts’ subsequent report, ‘I am going to make sure that I keep on Christine’s side in future.’ ‘So am I,’ another scribbled in reply. ‘She frightens me to death.’”

‘Christine Granville, British Secret Agent’

http://neveryetmelted.com/2013/07/10/christine-granville-british-secret-agent/