Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the main character in this book, was a woman of complexities, one of which was how she chose to refer to herself. Throughout World War II, her surname was Méric, the name of her first husband, from whom she had long been estranged. She took the name Fourcade—the surname of her second husband—after the war and used it when she wrote her memoirs; it is the name by which she is known in France today. To avoid the confusion of going back and forth between the two names, I’ve used Fourcade throughout.