Madeleine Riffaud's life was woven by struggle, writing and three wars – a century of resilience and resistance. The renowned French journalist, who fought the Nazis as a teenage Resistance fighter and later covered conflicts from Algeria to Vietnam, died this week in Paris at the age of 100.
"A heroine has gone," wrote the daily newspaper L'Humanité, for whom she worked as a war correspondent. Riffaud's publisher Dupuis confirmed her passing on Wednesday.
