She was awarded a croix de guerre with vermeil palm for her military work during the Second World War.

[2] Her parents were Asthon Tardon (1882–1944) and Berthe Marie Waddy (1887–1961) and she was the third of five children in a wealthy, upper-class, Creole family.

[3] She participated in the various resistance networks of Free France, she took refuge in Châteaudun in Eure-et-Loir, where she was at the time of the landing of the Normandy invasion in 1944.

[2] Demobilized on 23 June 1946, Tardon returned to Martinique with her son, dedicating the rest of her life to the preservation of the family's estate.

[9] Tardon's home, Residence Anse Couleuvre, which dates from the seventeenth century, is reportedly available to visit.