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King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1221, 7 June 1919, Page 6

Then* was a toucliini: scene recently in Hie office of M. Cleinenceaii when In? pinned on the breast oT a French airl, l.oiiise Thiiliez, (lie Cross of tin* Legion or and Hi" War Cross Willi palm. .Mdlte TllUlieZ was accompanied |»v members of Iter family, ami I In* eyes of all shone, with pleasure as Ihey heard M. demenceau recall the circumstances «»f duly performed which bad merited the decorations. The ."irl lives at Valenciennes. where she was twice arrested on charges of assisting French soldiers to escape, on the tirst occasion she Was sentenced |o death as a spy. •»n the intervention of tin* Spanish Ambassador the sentence was commuted to one of tife imprisonment: lint a fortnight later another c«iiirl-martial tried ber on a eharae uf having assisted Freneli soldiers who had remained in lh»" Mormal Forest after tin: capitulation of Maiiheri-'c and the battle of r.harb'roi. Again Hie irirt was sentenced lo death, and once more |fur sentence W.is oitlimuled. >lle tl.'id served three years' imprisonment when Hie ended.