38 Facts About Laure Gatet

Laure Gatet was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.

Laure Gatet mainly performed actions of propaganda and information exchanges between France and its neighboring countries.

Laure Constance Pierrette Gatet was born in Boussac-Bourg in Creuse, France on 19 July 1913.

Laure Gatet's family promoted education and her mother and aunt attended a girls' high school and earned their high school diploma and certificate of competency.

Laure Gatet's father was a teacher, inspector and director of training schools.

Laure Gatet was first educated in a primary school for girls in La Villeneuve from 1920 to 1924 and then at the school of Boussac-Ville in 1925.

Laure Gatet was one of the most awarded school students and was cited many times on the honor roll.

Laure Gatet received the Disciplinary Board congratulations for impeccable behavior.

Laure Gatet excelled in literature, physics, chemistry, history and geography, Spanish, Latin, and visual arts.

On 11 July 1930, Gatet passed the series A and B of her first tests for her baccalaureate at the University of Bordeaux.

Laure Gatet's tests were marked "good enough" and as a result she passed.

Laure Gatet began her training with a mandatory one-year internship, from July 1931 to October 1932, with Mr Pasquet, owner of the central pharmacy in town hall square in Perigueux.

Laure Gatet obtained her mineralogy certificate in June 1935, biological chemistry in June 1936 and botany in June 1938.

Laure Gatet found that she was not attracted to profession of pharmacist dispensary, so she finally decided to move towards biochemistry, and at the end of 1936, she was accepted at the Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry of Professor Louis Genevois, in the Faculty of Science.

The subject was of particular interest to Laure Gatet, whose paternal grandfather was a winemaker.

Laure Gatet was then subsidized by the National Fund for Scientific Research, which granted her a half-scholarship of 12,500 francs.

In Bordeaux, before the Second World War, Laure Gatet met with a group of Catholics led by Jesuit Father Antoine Dieuzayde at the foyer Henri Bazire.

In 1982, Louis Genevois wrote that Laura Laure Gatet made Gaullist propaganda, a dangerous mix that scared her secretary.

Laure Gatet hid the classified top secret papers in boxes of baking powder.

Laure Gatet received a pass, allowing her to cross the line and visit her parents in Perigueux.

Laure Gatet was held there for three days and although she underwent several interrogations, never denounced anyone.

Marie Laure Gatet tried to have her niece released, but without success.

On 3 July 1942, Marie Laure Gatet received a letter informing her that her niece was detained in prison La Sante Prison in Paris.

Laure Gatet had been detained there since 14 June 1942.

Laure Gatet communicated with her family for a long time, from autumn 1942, receiving letters and parcels from them.

Laure Gatet never talked about her situation in the prison and did not seem worried.

On 8 September 1942, one of the letters she wrote to her to Marie Laure Gatet referred to Pierre Cartaud and his responsibility for dismantling the resistance network.

Laure Gatet was again transferred, this time to Fort Romainville, on 12 January 1943.

Laure Gatet was tattooed on the left forearm and registered under registration number 31833, and underwent various tests.

Laure Gatet died before the program began in the middle of the month.

Laure Gatet was then elevated to the rank of lieutenant by the War Minister, Paul Coste-Floret, on 24 May 1947.

Laure Gatet was named to the French Legion of Honour on 10 November 1955 by President Rene Coty, who assigns her the French Resistance Medal.

On 16 June 1953, Laure Gatet officially received the status of "remote-resistant" from the Departmental of Veterans Affairs in Limoges, following the request of her mother made two years before.

Laure Gatet paid tribute to her with this title: "Man and the tree Laure Gatet martyrdom of resistance".

Additionally, the street where Gatet was arrested by the SS on 10 June 1942, in Bordeaux, was named Laure-Gatet Street on 2 October 1951.

Laure Gatet's name appears on a plaque in memory of the dead students of France, placed in the lobby of the former faculty of medicine and pharmacy of Bordeaux.

Laure Gatet's name is added to the family tomb of Gatet Malassenet her family, situated in the center of the cemetery in Boussac-Ville.

In 2011, Laure Gatet was one of the twenty-five women honored in the traveling exhibition "Famous Women of Perigord", organized by the General Council of the Dordogne by sociologist Victoria Estier-Man.