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542: 433:. Tired of waiting for the start of the British offensive, Foch dispatched the cavalry corps of commander Conneau to Lille. On the stroke of noon on 12 October, Lille heard the gunfire coming closer. The corps of Conneau engaged in a famous battle, but did not persist, believing that Lille had succumbed. Surrounding the city, the Germans had between 50,000 and 80,000 men, facing a motley band of 2,795 men composed of chasseurs, goumiers and especially territorials, armed with a battery of artillery, with three 75mm guns and little ammunition. 411:. Then a few days later, he was given a counter-order. Upon his return, the prefect found the offices of military buildings open to all the winds and the equipment abandoned. On 27 August Trepont asked John Vandenbosch, an industrialist, to move all military equipment to Dunkirk. Transport lasted for 21 days, and 278 trains were needed. On 2 September, the Germans entered the city, then departed after extorting ransom. They returned several times. On 4 October, a detachment of 454: 500:
on a secret visit to the front at Lille. During the approach to Lille, two British aircraft bombed the train and emerged, but missed their target. The German command did not understand the unique situation of these forty kilometers of "cursed" front (held by the British) out of nearly seven hundred
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on a petticoat. Once at her destination, she ironed the petticoat to make the messages visible and cut them apart for delivery. Impressed by her cleverness and her language skills, officers of both the French and English intelligence agencies tried to recruit her. She decided to work for the British,
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Her body was repatriated on 21 February 1920. On 16 March 1920 a funeral was held in Lille in which she was posthumously awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor, the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with palm, and the British Military Medal, and she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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De Bettignies smuggled men to England, provided valuable information to the Intelligence Service, and prepared for her superiors in London a grid map of the region around Lille. When the German army installed a new battery of artillery, the intelligence she provided allowed this camouflaged position
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According to Louise's niece Marguerite de Bettignies, "They were too artistic, too proud to claim their due, for the "big people" of the world were failing to pay their bills, convinced no doubt that for them to order, and thus to recognize the talent of the Bettignies, was a distinction worth all
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She was six years older than me. I saw her most often at Valenciennes, at the house of our common grandmother, Louise was blonde, frail in appearance, with a mobile face and piercing eyes that seemed to dart in all directions ... It is true that the days when I saw her, when she was about twelve,
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From 4 to 13 October 1914, by turning the only cannon that the Lille troops had, the defenders succeeded in deceiving the enemy and holding them for several days under an intense battle that destroyed more than 2,200 buildings and houses, particularly in the area of the station. Louise, moving
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Tariffs were high, and the deposit became a factory after it had taken over the supply of material for the porcelain maker Fauquez, which he improved. First installed in rue Marion, the factory in 1837 was established at a place called Le Moulin des Loups, on the road to Valenciennes. In 1831,
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In 2008, a small museum was established in her birthplace, rue Louise de Bettignies (formerly Rue de Conde) in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. As of October 2021, a large portrait of de Bettignies was scheduled to be finished on the outside of the building, which was being converted to a resource center
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were her holidays. She was a boarder with her sister, Germaine, at the Convent of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, where the good nuns fed that lively child opinions that were similar to those of her grandmother. However, she worked so as to give them satisfaction.
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The network, which operated within forty kilometers of the front to the west and east of Lille, was so effective that she was nicknamed by her English superiors "the queen of spies." Starting in spring 1915, de Bettignies worked closely with
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through the ruins of Lille, ensured the supply of ammunition and food to the soldiers who were still firing on the attackers. In makeshift hospitals, she wrote letters in German dictated by dying Germans to their families.
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during her trip in 1915. It was there that she was offered the position of tutor of the children of Ferdinand Joseph, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. She declined the offer and returned to France.
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art on the quai des Salines. The factory was called the imperial and royal factory. In 1787, the Duke of Orleans ordered a magnificent service in blue decor from Tournai of which some pieces are held in the
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In 1818, Maximilen Joseph de Bettignies, advocate to the council of Tournai, General Counsel and magistrate, opened a depot at rue du Wacq in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, which he gave to his son Maximilian.
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After the German army invaded Lille in October 1914, de Bettignies began carrying messages from people who were trapped there to and from their relatives in unoccupied France. She did this by
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Maximilian Joseph obtained the French nationality. In 1833, he married, in Orchies, Adeline Armande Bocquet, who bore him four children, one of whom was Henri, Louise de Bettignies's father.
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and the Netherlands. It is estimated that the network saved the lives of more than a thousand British soldiers during its 9 months of full operation from January to September 1915.
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During this turbulent period, the government yielded to fear. The prefect Felix Trepont was ordered to retreat with the administrative and postal services to
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On 31 July 1818 M.J. de Bettignies filed a patent No. 521 on the paste with which to make large vases of bone china (Brev. d'inv., volume XVI, p. 276).
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the gold in the world. When the situation proved untenable, they preferred to put the key in the door, rather than letting their workers go unpaid.
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stumbled on a battalion of Chasseurs on foot, resting in the city. Taken aback, they retreated, burning some houses in the suburb of Fives.
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De Bettignies Louise (1880 - 1918) Ă©crit par Bertin de Bettignies, petit fils d'Albert de Bettignies, frĂšre de Louise de Bettignies
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In Lille, there is a monument to Louise de Bettignies that includes a statue of her with a soldier kneeling and kissing her hand.
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In 1866, Henri de Bettignies married Julienne Mabille de Poncheville, from an old family of lawyers in the northern France.
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who gave her the pseudonym Alice Dubois and helped her set up an intelligence network of some one hundred people.
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Lille was invaded by a crowd of refugees. Until October 9, there was confusion in both prefecture and in the city.
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After the death of her father in 1903, she returned to Lille, where she graduated in the Faculty of Letters of the
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On 30 June 1880, Henry and Maximilian de Bettignies ceded their business to Gustave Dubois and LĂ©andre Bouquiaux.
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in early 1916. The information was relayed to the French commander, but unfortunately, he refused to believe it.
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Several French towns have named streets, schools and other structures after her, for example, the school where
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in 1906. After her studies, she had a perfect mastery of English and a good knowledge of German and Italian.
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Her parents moved in Lille in 1895, but she left in 1898 for England to continue her higher studies with the
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On October 9, the commander Felix de Pardieu and his territorials were ordered to retreat in the region of
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Traces of the Bettignies family date back to 1228. The Lordship of Bettignies was located near the city of
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She was arrested in October 1915 and imprisoned, dying shortly before the end of the war in captivity.
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Another opportunity allowed her to report the date and time of passage of the imperial train carrying
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The Mabille family had its origins in the Pas-de-Calais and for several generations had notaries in
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Despite her father's financial difficulties, de Bettignies obtained a secondary education in
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In memory of Louise de Bettignies; in front of the prison of St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
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for life. After being held for three years, she died on 27 September 1918 as a result of
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According to note 16 on page 29 of the book by René Deruyk, she was related to
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Peterinck de La Gohelle, de Bettignies’ great-grandfather, originated in
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One of her last messages announced the preparation of a massive
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Cover of the book "The queen of spies" by Major Thomas Coulson
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Chemins de mémoire de la Grande guerre en Nord-Pas de Calais
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Gorez-Brienne, Sandrine; VĂ©rizian-Lefeuvre, Corinne (2010).
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Before August was over, Louise left Wissant and returned to
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Back in Lille in early 1914, where she was operated on for
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She then moved to the Princess Elvira of Bavaria, at the
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poorly operated upon at St. Mary's Hospital in Cologne.
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provided important information to the British by way of
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At the outbreak of the war, Louise lived in a villa at
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Louise and Germaine lived together at 166 rue d'Isly.
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Louise de Bettignies: résistante lilloise (1880-1918)
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Index

Louise-de-Bettignies

Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
Cologne
[lwizmaʁiʒanɑ̃ʁjɛtdəbetiÉČi]
secret agent
World War I
Legion of Honour
Croix de guerre 1914-1918
Military Medal
Order of the British Empire
Mons
Belgium
Lille
Tournai
porcelain
Musée royal de Mariemont
Valenciennes
Valenciennes
Sisters of the Sacred Heart
André Mabille de Poncheville
fr
Ursulines
Upton
Essex
Wimbledon
Oxford
University of Lille
Pierrefonds, Oise
Milan

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