Marie Drouet

Marie Drouet (born Marie-Ernestine Juillard, April 17, 1885 in Chartèves – November 19, 1963 in Bétheny) was a French heroine of World War I.

Born April 17, 1885, in Chartèves in the department of Aisne,[1][2] she is the third daughter of Auguste Juillard and Victorine Marchand.

She married Charles Drouet on January 15, 1906, in Bétheny where she lived[1] and ran a grocery store called “Le Pot-au-rouge” on Henri-Gand street.

[1][2][3] Throughout the conflict, avoiding French and German encampments, she transported the wounded from the battlefield to the hospital using her plow and donkey.

[2] Suspected by the French secret service of working for the enemy, the order accompanying the captain who came to arrest her at her home exonerates her.