The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn

Excerpt from La Guerre des Femmes, memoir of Louise de Bettignies’s war work by Antoine Redier, as told to him by his wife Léonie van Houtte, code name Violette Lameron: She finished as she had lived, a soldier.

I burst out crying when I read these translated words in “La Guerre des Femmes.” These simple words, relayed by her best friend and right-hand woman, made such a fitting epitaph for gallant, brave, brilliant Louise that I knew they had to be included.