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Gabrielle Petit

Gabrielle Petit

1893–1916

Nationality
Belgium
Occupation
spy

Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit (20 February 1893 – 1 April 1916) was a Belgian spy who worked for the British Secret Service in German-occupied Belgium during World War I.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Saint-Gilles Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit (20 February 1893 – 1 April 1916) was a Belgian spy who worked for the British Secret Service in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. She was executed in 1916, and was widely celebrated as a Belgian national heroine after the war's end.

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