Louise de Bettignies

I still have vivid memories of my cousin from the time we spent at our grandmother's house on rue Capron Street, in Valenciennes ... Louise was then twelve. On October 9, the commander Felix de Pardieu and his territorials were ordered to retreat in the region of Neuve-Chapelle, leaving Lille without defender. Le lycée professionnel Louise de Bettignies rouvre ses portes! Several French towns have given her name to streets, schools and other structures. Another opportunity allowed her to report the date and time of passage of the imperial train carrying the Kaiser on a secret visit to the front at Lille. Louise Marie Henriette Jeanne de Bettignies , née le 15 juillet 1880 à Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, morte le 27 septembre 1918 à Cologne, est un agent secret français qui espionna, sous le pseudonyme d’Alice Dubois, pour le compte de l’armée britannique durant la Première Guerre mondiale. d'inv., volume XVI, p. 276). They returned several times. Until October 9, there was confusion in both prefecture and in the city. During the approach to Lille, two British aircraft bombed the train and emerged, but missed their target. Louise de Bettignies, aged 28, spoke four languages including German and English. Until October 9, there was confusion in both prefecture and in the city. Transport lasted for 21 days, and 278 trains were needed. 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 the gold in the world. 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. Her sentence was forced labor for life. Louise Marie Jeanne Henriette de Bettignies came from a privileged French background. Transport lasted for 21 days, and 278 trains were needed.

The Mabille family had its origins in the Pas-de-Calais at that time, and for several generations they were notaries in On 30 June 1880 Henry and Maximilian de Bettignies ceded their business to Gustave Dubois and Léandre Bouquiaux.Despite her father's financial difficulties, de Bettignies obtained a secondary education in Valenciennes with the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.She was six years older than me. The prefect Felix Trepont was ordered to retreat with the administrative and postal services to Dunkirk. In 1833 he married, in Orchies, Adeline Armande Bocquet, who bore him four children, one of whom was Henri, Louise de Bettignies’ father.In 1866 Henri de Bettignies married Julienne Mabille de Poncheville, from an old family of lawyers in the north of France. On 4 October, a detachment of Wahnschaffe stumbled on a battalion of Chasseurs on foot, resting in the city. 28 September 1968. Tariffs were high, and the deposit became factory, after taken over supply of material for the porcelain maker Fauquez, which he improved. 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 miles of front. In 1833 he married, in Orchies, Adeline Armande Bocquet, who bore him four children, of whom Henri was the father of Louise.In 1866 Henri de Bettignies married Julienne Mabille de Poncheville, from an old family of lawyers in the north of France.

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, the British Military Medal and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. 521 on the paste with which to make large vases of bone china (Brev. The information was relayed to the French commander who refused to believe it. Traces of the Bettignies family date back to 1228. Among others, the school where De Bettignies is a secondary character in Kate Quinn's book "The Alice Network", published in 2017.

d'inv., volume XVI, p. 276). In makeshift hospitals, she wrote letters in German dictated by dying Germans to their families. After being held for three years, she died on 27 September 1918 as a result of pleural abscesses poorly operated upon at St. Mary's Hospital in Cologne. During the approach to Lille, two British aircraft bombed the train and emerged, but missed their target.

After being held for three years, she died on 27 September 1918 as a result of pleural abscesses poorly operated upon at St. Mary's Hospital in Cologne. Le protocole sanitaire conditionnant l’accueil, les cours et la demi-pension pour la reprise des cours en juin 2020 ont été transmis à chaque élève le 28 mai sur leur Google Classroom Vie Scolaire ainsi que sur Pronote. On 2 September, the Germans entered the city, then departed after extorting ransom. Multilingual (French - English - German - Italian), she ran from her home in a Lille vast intelligence network in the North of France on behalf of the British army and the The network is estimated to have saved the lives of more than a thousand British soldiers during the 9 months of full operation from January to September 1915. 521 on the paste with which to make large vases of bone china (Brev. First installed in rue Marion, in 1837 the factory was established at a place called Le Moulin des Loups, on the road to Valenciennes. It is true that the days when I saw her, when she was about twelve, were her holidays. On 30 June 1880 Henry and Maximilian de Bettignies ceded their business to Gustave Dubois and Léandre Bouquiaux.Despite her father's financial difficulties, Louise de Bettignies obtained a secondary education in Valenciennes with the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.From 1895 her parents lived in Lille, at 166 rue d'Isly, but she left in 1898 for England to continue her higher studies with the She then moved to the Princess Elvira of Bavaria, at the Holeschau Castle in Austro-Hungary (now Moravia, The Czech Republic).