Alix d'Unienville

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Alix Marrier d'Unienville,

Commissioned into the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, she began her SOE training in June 1943, passing through the special training schools at Beaulieu. On 31 March 1944, she parachuted into Loir-et-Cher from a Halifax aircraft with millions in francs for the Gaullist delegate-general to distribute.^[3] Adopting the alias Aline Bavelan, her cover story was she was born on the island of Réunion in 1922, moved to France in 1938 to study and was now the wife of a prisoner of war.^[4]

She worked in Paris, known by the codename Myrtil to the intelligence-officers & signallers in London, and the codename Marie-France to her colleagues in the Resistance. She was successful until 6 June 1944 when she was arrested with "Tristan" (

D'Unienville, by once again eating and talking, was able to get herself transferred briefly to Saint-Anne, and then to the prison camp at Romainville, where she and another woman, Annie Hervé, hatched a plan to escape over the walls using a rope they made out of black curtains. The attempt was abandoned when Hervé was deported to Germany.

She was in the last convoy to be sent from Romainville towards Germany, but she was able to escape when the prisoners were sent across a road bridge over the Marne because the rail bridge had been destroyed by Allied bombing. She was then able to hide in two villages before being liberated by the Americans, whereupon she was able to return to Paris.

After the war d'Unienville was employed as a war correspondent for US forces in south east Asia before she worked as an air hostess for Air France and became a writer of fiction and nonfiction.

Bibliography

Books which have been written by Alix d'Unienville include the following:^[6]

1. Nuit et jour : Le grand hebdomadaire illustré (1944)

2. En vol : journal d'une hôtesse de l'air (1949)

3. La Chaîne d'amour (The loving spirit) (1950)

4. Les Mascareignes, vieille France en mer indienne (1954)

5. Images de l'île Maurice (1954)

6. Qui es-tu ? (1957)

7. Hôtesse courageuse (1959)

8. Le Point zéro (1961)

9. La fête secrète (1975)

10. Le Trésor de Dieu (1976)

11. L'amour dans l'âme (1995)

12. Printemps fragiles (2016)

Decorations

D'Unienville was appointed a Military

References