French Resistance "Alliance Intelligence Service" Member. Her husband was a leader in the Alliance, and in March 1944, she was arrested and held in the Natzweiler-Struthof Camp, she was one of the 108 Alliance members murdered by the Nazis in a 48 hour ordeal that began on the night of Sept. 1-2. They were lined up, one at a time were sent on the stairway to the crematorium and each was shot in the back of the neck. Then the body was placed on the hoist and sent to be cremated. One member of the Alliance was not transported, and told of their murder when he was liberated.
There is not much to find about this young woman. She was married to Alliance member Henri Battu (codename: Opposum). In her book, "Le Arc d'Noe", Alliance leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade describes Madame Battu:
"Her beautiful, grave face, with its huge periwinkle eyes, curly brown hair and a lithe, slender body - I can see her bent over the cradle of the tiny baby daughter she had had after many years of marriage and whose smile was to her a perpetual source of astonishment.
Christiane is an artist. She paints beautifully and adorned their tiny home with taste. She lives only for her husband and baby.
We tore ourselves away from this pretty picture and went into the next room to begin to wait for the Lysander. Ermine and I talked about our underground life. Christiane listened, surprised and dismayed. 'I didn't know that anyone could do all that. . . . Take me on too. . . .' she said, quite unaware of what she was, in fact, already doing - sheltering a powder magazine."
There is not much to find about this young woman. She was married to Alliance member Henri Battu (codename: Opposum). In her book, "Le Arc d'Noe", Alliance leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade describes Madame Battu:
"Her beautiful, grave face, with its huge periwinkle eyes, curly brown hair and a lithe, slender body - I can see her bent over the cradle of the tiny baby daughter she had had after many years of marriage and whose smile was to her a perpetual source of astonishment.
Christiane is an artist. She paints beautifully and adorned their tiny home with taste. She lives only for her husband and baby.
We tore ourselves away from this pretty picture and went into the next room to begin to wait for the Lysander. Ermine and I talked about our underground life. Christiane listened, surprised and dismayed. 'I didn't know that anyone could do all that. . . . Take me on too. . . .' she said, quite unaware of what she was, in fact, already doing - sheltering a powder magazine."
French Resistance "Alliance Intelligence Service" Member. Her husband was a leader in the Alliance, and in March 1944, she was arrested and held in the Natzweiler-Struthof Camp, she was one of the 108 Alliance members murdered by the Nazis in a 48 hour ordeal that began on the night of Sept. 1-2. They were lined up, one at a time were sent on the stairway to the crematorium and each was shot in the back of the neck. Then the body was placed on the hoist and sent to be cremated. One member of the Alliance was not transported, and told of their murder when he was liberated.
There is not much to find about this young woman. She was married to Alliance member Henri Battu (codename: Opposum). In her book, "Le Arc d'Noe", Alliance leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade describes Madame Battu:
"Her beautiful, grave face, with its huge periwinkle eyes, curly brown hair and a lithe, slender body - I can see her bent over the cradle of the tiny baby daughter she had had after many years of marriage and whose smile was to her a perpetual source of astonishment.
Christiane is an artist. She paints beautifully and adorned their tiny home with taste. She lives only for her husband and baby.
We tore ourselves away from this pretty picture and went into the next room to begin to wait for the Lysander. Ermine and I talked about our underground life. Christiane listened, surprised and dismayed. 'I didn't know that anyone could do all that. . . . Take me on too. . . .' she said, quite unaware of what she was, in fact, already doing - sheltering a powder magazine."
There is not much to find about this young woman. She was married to Alliance member Henri Battu (codename: Opposum). In her book, "Le Arc d'Noe", Alliance leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade describes Madame Battu:
"Her beautiful, grave face, with its huge periwinkle eyes, curly brown hair and a lithe, slender body - I can see her bent over the cradle of the tiny baby daughter she had had after many years of marriage and whose smile was to her a perpetual source of astonishment.
Christiane is an artist. She paints beautifully and adorned their tiny home with taste. She lives only for her husband and baby.
We tore ourselves away from this pretty picture and went into the next room to begin to wait for the Lysander. Ermine and I talked about our underground life. Christiane listened, surprised and dismayed. 'I didn't know that anyone could do all that. . . . Take me on too. . . .' she said, quite unaware of what she was, in fact, already doing - sheltering a powder magazine."
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