Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 – 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France. After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research. During the German occupation, she engaged in the resistance network, the Brotherhood of Our Lady, as a liaison to Free France. She mainly performed actions of propaganda and information exchanges between France and its neighboring countries. Spotted by the German police, she was arrested on the evening of 10 June 1942 and detained in several prisons before being transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was murdered. Childhood and schooling debut Laure Constance Pierrette Gatet was born in Boussac-Bourg in Creuse, France on 19 July 1913. Her family promoted education and her mother and aunt attended a girls' high school and earned their high school diploma and certificate of competency. Her father was a teacher, inspector and director of training schools. Gatet was brilliant in her primary studies. She was first educated in a primary school for girls in La Villeneuve from 1920 to 1924 and then at the school of Boussac-Ville in 1925. In April 1925, she joined the young girls college in Aurillac, Cantal. Several awards were given to her during her school career. In February 1926, for example, with the results of her graduation certificate, she won a bicycle. Gatet was one of the most awarded school students and was cited many times on the honor roll. She received the Disciplinary Board congratulations for impeccable behavior. When she obtained her high school diploma, she also received the 1st prize for outstanding results in mathematics and English. She also excelled in literature, physics, chemistry, history and geography, Spanish, Latin, and visual arts. On 11 July 1930, Gatet passed the series A and B of her first tests for her baccalaureate at the University of Bordeaux. Her tests were marked "good enough" and as a result she passed. In April 1931, she was elected president of the "Horizon", a cooperative founded to "strengthen links among students" and organize various cultural clubs. Graduate studies Gatet decided to study to be a pharmacist, which was the most common science study in baccalaureate at that time. She began her training with a mandatory