He apprenticed as a baker, and later worked in a metal foundry and for automobile factories, including Talbot and then Citroën.

[4] In 1938 she accepted a permanent job with the PCF, where she met Maurice Tréand, head of the cadres organization.

With the approach of World War II (1939–45) she was given the job of secretly preparing for the survival of the party if it were made illegal, as seemed likely.

[6] She would often sit beside Germans on trains in the expectation that they would gallantly protect the elegant young woman, unaware that she was carrying money and papers hidden in her luggage and handbag.

[7] Dallidet was recognized talking to a woman in a cafe beside the Reuilly metro station on the evening on 28 February 1942.

This led to other arrests including "Betty" (Madeleine Passot), Dallidet's most important liaison officer.

[8] Madeleine Passot was arrested in Paris in March 1942 and imprisoned in Fort de Romainville.

She was an Officer of the Legion of Honour, holder of the Médaille militaire, the Croix de Guerre with Palm, the Resistance Medal and the Volunteer combatant's cross.