It counted among its members Alfred Péron, normalien and English professor at the Lycée Buffon.
The network depended on the British Secret Intelligence Service, in conjunction with the SOE.
Its members were intellectuals, managers, and artists including an engraver who was very useful for producing false documents.
The Gloria network was infiltrated by Father Robert Alesch and was decimated in August 1942.
Samuel Beckett and his companion Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, were warned by Péron's wife and escaped arrest, fleeing to their friend the writer Nathalie Sarraute in the free zone.