Code Name Verity
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Part 1: Ormaie 8.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 9.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 10.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 11.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 16.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 17.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 18.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 20.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 21.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 22.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 23.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 24. XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 25.XI.43 JB-S Part 1: Ormaie 28.XI.43 JB-S Note to Amadeus von Linden from Nikolaus Ferber Part 2, Section 1 Part 2, Section 2 Part 2, Section 3 Part 2, Section 4 Part 2, Section 5 Part 2, Section 6 Part 2, Section 7 Part 2, Section 8 Part 2, Section 9 Part 2, Section 10 Part 2, Section 11 Part 2, Section 12 Part 2, Section 13 Part 2, Section 14 Part 2, Section 15 Part 2, Section 16 Part 2, Section 17 Part 2, Section 18 Part 2, Section 19 Part 2, Section 20 Part 2, Section 21 Part 2, Section 22 Part 2, Section 23 Part 2, Section 24 Part 2, Section 25 Part 2, Section 26
Themes
All Themes Friendship War, Women, and Gender Roles The Horrors of War Resistance and Courage Storytelling
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Characters
All Characters Maddie Brodatt Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain Anna Engel Jamie Dympna Wythenshawe The Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer/John Balliol Paul Mitraillette Amélie/La Cadette SS-Scharführer Etienne Thibaut Maman Thibaut Papa Thibaut The Rose-Grower Georgia Penn The French Girl/Marie The Jamaican Rear Gunner Julie’s Mother Squadron Leader Creighton Theo The Photographer The Farmer’s Wife
Terms
All Terms Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Gestapo Lysander Nacht und Nebel (NN) Puss Moth RDF Resistance Royal Air Force (RAF) Special Duties Service Special Operations Executive (SOE) Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
Symbols
All Symbols Peter Pan Damask Roses Boots
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Code Name Verity

by

Elizabeth Wein
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The French Girl/Marie Character Analysis

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.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Amélie/La Cadette, The French Girl/Marie
Friendship Theme Icon
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
Resistance and Courage Theme Icon
Page Number: 265
Explanation and Analysis:
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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:
Friendship Theme Icon
).
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.

Related Characters: Maddie Brodatt (speaker), Julie/The Narrator/Queenie/Verity, SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden/The Captain, Amélie/La Cadette, The French Girl/Marie
Friendship Theme Icon
The Horrors of War Theme Icon
Resistance and Courage Theme Icon
Page Number: 265
Explanation and Analysis:
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