When German tanks moved into the city's Place du Capitole on 11 November 1942, she decided to join the Resistance, and it was through this that she met her future husband, who was more than twenty years her senior.
Her role was that of a regional liaison officer[1] and she was responsible for the safety of the families of those who had been shot or imprisoned.
Working under Agnés Bidault at COSOR (Comité des Œuvres Sociales de la Résistance), she began to organise a political entity that would later become the Conseil départemental du Lot.
[2] She ensured that Le Chant du Monde, a tapestry series completed by Lurçat shortly before his death, was put on display at the Salle des Malades of the Hôpital Saint Jean from 1968 onwards.
[3] When several of Lurçat's tapestries were damaged by a fire, his widow made the final decision as to which of them should be destroyed and recreated and which were capable of conservation.