July 2012
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Obit: Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld →
discoverynews:
From the Telegraph:
Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who has died aged 88, escaped from Occupied France to join the Special Operations Executive (SOE); parachuted back on sabotage missions, he twice faced execution, only to escape on both occasions, once dressed as a Nazi people.
Other disguises also came in useful. On the run in occupied Bordeaux he dressed as a nun. In...
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