Marie Chamming's


Marie Chamming's was a French writer and resistant.

Biography

The daughter of entrepreneur, Marie Henriette Françoise Krebs was born on 3 May 1923 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. During World War II, she became a special liaison to Special Air Service Captain while a part of the French Resistance. She met an SAS paratrooper, Georges Chamming's, whom she married at the Liberation of Paris. She then wrote J'ai choisi la tempête, for which she won the Prix Vérité in 1964.
Chamming's died on 15 February 2022, at the age of 98.

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