Simone Segouin, also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet, is a former French Resistance fighter. She served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German female military messenger.
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Simone Segouin, also known by her nom de guerre Nicole Minet, is a former French Resistance fighter. She served in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans group. Among her first acts of resistance was stealing a bicycle from a German female military messenger, which she then used to help carry messages. She went on to take part in large-scale or otherwise perilous missions, such as capturing German troops, derailing trains, and acts of sabotage.
She gained international notoriety when photographs of her by American photographer Robert Capa were published in Life weeks after the capture of 25 German soldiers in which she took part.
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