Philosopher, professor and pacifist. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was a philosophy professor at a school in Bourges. She left teaching and took a train to Barcelona to defend the government of the Republic. She was a member of the Durruti Column fighting on the Aragon front, where she wrote a personal diary about her war experiences. After suffering an accident on the front, she returned to France, where she got involved in the resistance against Nazism.

As a philosopher, she cultivated mystical thinking with a strong social commitment.

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Paris 1909 – Ashford (United Kingdom) 1943 ID 1950

She was a voluntary journalist in the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. In France, she was involved in the Nazi resistance. As a philosopher, she cultivated mystical thinking with a strong social commitment.