Odile de Vasselot


Odile de Vasselot was a French resistance fighter.

Biography

Odile de Vasselot de Régné was born on 6 January 1922 in Saumur. She was the daughter and granddaughter of soldiers. After the German invasion of France in 1940 she became a courier in an underground organisation, the Zero network, and carried Resistance communications. When the Zero network was broken she joined the Comet line '' and helped to smuggle Allied airmen through occupied Europe to Spain.
After the war, de Vasselot earned a degree in history from the Sorbonne and chose a life of religious commitment and education. In 1947, she joined the Saint-François-Xavier apostolic community.
From 1959 to 1988, she taught in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she founded and served as director of the Sainte-Marie secondary school, dedicating three decades to teaching there.

Death

De Vasselot died on 21 April 2025, at the age of 103.

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