Yvette Chassagne

Yvette Madeleine Chassagne ( 28 March 1922 – 4 September 2007) was a French civil servant.

[1][2] From 1943 to 1944, during the German occupation of France, she was part of a French Resistance network that produced false identity papers and warned Jewish families of impending raids.

She then was employed by the Insurance division at the Ministry of Finance, later becoming assistant director and then "conseiller maître" (master auditor) at the Court of Audit.

[4] After leaving that post, she was president of the Union des assurances de Paris [fr] from 1983 to 1987.

Chassagne was named to the national orders of a number of African countries including the Ivory Coast, Senegal, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Mali and Niger, also becoming a Commander in the Order of the Equatorial Star of Gabon.