group looked for ways to resist the Germans. Gatet regularly attended their meetings. On the night of 19 – 20 June 1940, Gatet was in Bordeaux with her aunt when the midnight bombing began. According to a testimony from Gatet's mother dating from 1955, at that time "Laure still hopes that France will be saved, [...] she does not accept the occupation, often at night, I hear her cry" . Gatet returned to live with her aunt, Marie Laure, in Bordeaux as the occupation of the city started at the beginning of October 1940. From that moment, she engaged in propaganda against the Nazis through Pierre Cayrol. In January 1941, she joined the resistance network and provided information to the Confrérie Notre-Dame (CND), headed in Bordeaux by Commander Jean Fleuret. She continued her propaganda activities against the occupiers. In 1982, Louis Genevois wrote that Laura Gatet made Gaullist propaganda, a dangerous mix that scared her secretary. Gatet and other resistant members in the CND network gathered each Sunday morning in Victor Hugo Bordeaux. Each person gave the others information collected. The information was then sent to London, to agents in the free zone or on the borders of the country. Gatet hid the classified top secret papers in boxes of baking powder. She received a pass, allowing her to cross the line and visit her parents in Périgueux. During these visits, she was often searched but the Germans never found anything that could accuse her. On 10 June 1942, however, Laure Gatet and thirty-three other members of the CND network were arrested. Pierre Cartaud, the Liaison Officer of the Network in Paris was arrested on 29 or 30 May 1942 and had admitted, after being tortured, of the existence of the network and provided a number of names. It was 5 am when three officers of the Sicherheitsdienst, dressed as French civilians arrived to arrest her. They searched the entire house for three or four hours, then took her away. Detention After her arrest, Gatet was transferred to the barracks in Boudet, then to Château du Hâ in Bordeaux. She was held there for three days and although she underwent several interrogations, never denounced anyone. On the day of her arrest on 10 June 1942, her aunt, Marie Laure, went to the central police station for news and then to the military headquarters in Bordeaux. There, an officer informed her