Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 4548 5516
https://isni.org/isni/0000000045485516
Name: 
Gouraud-Morris, Violette
Morris, Violette
Violette Morris (Frans voetbalster (1893-1944))
Violette Morris (fransk fodboldspiller)
Violette Morris (fransk fotballspelar)
Violette Morris (fransk fotballspiller)
Violette Morris (fransk fotbollsspelare)
Violette Morris (French throws athlete)
Violette Morris (sportive française polyvalente, devenue espionne et collaboratrice de la Gestapo)
Dates: 
1893-1944
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Language material
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author
Titles: 
Diablesse, La
Notes: 
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Athletes Spies
Rullin, R. La diablesse, 1989 cover p. 4 (Violette Morris, 1893-1944; French athlete; Nazi collaborator; executed by the Resistance)
Wikipedia, February 28, 2019 (Violette Morris; Violette Morris (18 April 1893--26 April 1944) was a French athlete who won two gold and one silver medals at the Women's World Games in 1921-1922; in 1936, she became a spy for Nazi Germany, which continued during World War II; she was killed in 1944 in a Resistance-led ambush as a traitor to France; Morris spent her adolescence in a convent, L'Assomption de Huy; she married Cyprien Gouraud on 22 August 1914; they divorced in May 1923; she served in World War I as a military nurse during the Battle of the Somme and a courier during the Battle of Verdun; she was the first French woman to excel at shot put and discus, and playing on two separate women's football teams)
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