The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

That Dior, may he and his New Look rot in hell.

Edith Piaf

French entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. Widely regarded as France’s greatest popular singer.

Artie Shaw,

American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and nonfiction. Widely regarded as one of jazz’s finest clarinetist.

tuppence . . .”

Two pence/ a trivial sum

bairn.

Scottish for child

Incipient regicide.

Pygmalion from the Greek myth, and sculpt one for myself.”

King of Cyprus who fashioned a woman of ivory then prayed for Aphrodite to bring her to life

moue.

Pouting expression used to convey disgust or displeasure

What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?

bruited

Rumor

fleur du mal

Flower of Evil

Louise de Bettignies is a historical figure little known today—and undeservedly so, for the courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness of the woman christened the queen of spies needs no exaggeration to make for thrilling reading.

Leonie van Houtte

Her husband later wrote La Guerre des Femmes, a memoir of Louise de Bettignies’s war work as related to him by his wife.

Such women were fleurs du mal indeed—with steel, with endurance, and with flair, they thrived in evil and inspired others in doing so.

The Queen of Spies: Louise de Bettignies, by Major Thomas Coulson