“It’s true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don’t draw any pride from it,” she later said.
Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city’s historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters. Among the latter was 18-year-old Simone Segouin, who used the nom de guerre Nicole.
She and Boursier had worked together for months, blowing up bridges and derailing trains carrying German troops or munitions. Although he was 20 years her senior, they became lovers.After Chartres was liberated, Ms. Segouin and her resistance comrades linked up with the French 2nd Armored Division on the 55-mile push toward Paris, occupied by the Germans for more than four years.
With the award was a message from Lord Richard Dannatt, a former chief of the British army: “We in Britain are still keenly aware of the vital role played by yourself and your comrades in weakening German morale prior to the Allied invasion of France, often at great personal sacrifice.” “I told her little by little about the work I was doing,” Boursier told Belden for the Life article. “I asked her if she would be scared to do such work. She said, ‘No, it would please me to kill Boches,’” using a derogatory French word for German soldiers.
For her wartime action, she was promoted to lieutenant and, along with other resistance fighters, was awarded the prestigious Croix de Guerre. She went on to become a pediatric nurse in Chartres. She and Boursier never married but had six children, all taking the surname Segouin, before they separated in the mid-1950s.
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