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The French girl is another prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo headquarters. She detests Julie for being a collaborator. Julie eventually snaps and, after listening to the Nazis torture the French girl for hours, shouts for the girl to lie and tell their captors anything. This results in the Nazis making Julie watch as they behead the girl. Before the girl is led to the guillotine, Julie shares her own real name. The girl shares her name, Marie, just before she dies. Later, it’s revealed that Marie was an older classmate of Amélie’s.
The French Girl/Marie Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by The French Girl/Marie or refer to The French Girl/Marie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Section 13 Quotes
Because that’s what it’s like, schoolmates being guillotined as spies. I didn’t understand before—really didn’t understand. Being a kid and worrying that a bomb might kill you is terrible. But being a kid and worrying that the police might cut your head off is something else entirely. I haven’t words for it. Every fresh broken horror is something I just didn’t understand until I came here.
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The French Girl/Marie Character Timeline in Code Name Verity
The timeline below shows where the character The French Girl/Marie appears in Code Name Verity. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1: Ormaie 9.XI.43 JB-S
...she watched them torture yesterday called her a “Little Scottish piece of shit.” Another French girl regularly spits at the narrator. They hate Thibaut too, because he turned on his own...
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Part 1: Ormaie 16.XI.43 JB-S
...In part because of the pictures and in part because they’ve been torturing the French girl again, the narrator hasn’t slept well. This is because the narrator’s room opens onto the...
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Part 1: Ormaie 22.XI.43 JB-S
...is writing all the time and wishing the Gestapo would give up on the French girl, who’s never going to speak.
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...exhausted since she’s been writing all night, and von Linden is still torturing the French girl. She likes writing about Maddie, but she’s too tired to keep going. The “bastard” watching...
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Part 1: Ormaie 25.XI.43 JB-S
...writes that last night, she and von Linden got into a “catfight” over the French girl. The Gestapo were torturing the girl all last night—and finally, the narrator broke. She started...
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...has 15 minutes to record what just happened. The guards tied her and the French girl to each other by their wrists and took them through the cellars to a courtyard...
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The narrator can’t believe she’s still alive. Now, von Linden sits across from her, and Marie’s blood is on the narrator’s hands. He did allow her the 15 minutes to write...
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Part 2, Section 13
...When they saw a crowd gathering, they joined it—and they saw the Gestapo kill a girl Amélie went to school with, using a guillotine. Maddie is aghast at the thought. It’s...
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Part 2, Section 22
...been trying to get back to Berlin since they started interrogating Julie and the French girl. She’ll head back by Christmas. Maddie warned Anna that the British are bombing Berlin, but...
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