one-year internship, from July 1931 to October 1932, with Mr. Pasquet, owner of the central pharmacy in town hall square in Périgueux. Following the internship, Gatet resumed her studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Bordeaux, where she received her diploma as a pharmacist in 1936. At the same time, she started preparing for degree in Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Science. She obtained her mineralogy certificate in June 1935, biological chemistry in June 1936 and botany in June 1938. She found that she was not attracted to profession of pharmacist dispensary, so she finally decided to move towards biochemistry, and at the end of 1936, she was accepted at the Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry of Professor Louis Genevois, in the Faculty of Science. While there, she devoted herself to her thesis and collaborated in scientific articles with different colleagues, in particular Pierre Cayrol, a specialist in yeast and a former doctoral student in the same laboratory. Gatet's thesis dealt with the maturation of grapes over time. The subject was of particular interest to Gatet, whose paternal grandfather was a winemaker. Based on three types of white and red grapes, collected between 1936 and 1938, Gatet developed many preparations, mixtures and methods to carry out this study over the next two years. She defended her thesis on 23 February 1940. This quality work is also the subject of a publication in the journal Annals of Physiology and Biological Physical Chemistry. Furthermore, the International Office of Wine awarded her work on 12 June 1946 (after her death) for a price of 5,000 francs. In the absence of employment, Laure Gatet was supported financially by her family from 1931 to 1938. During the academic year 1938–1939, the Schutzenberger Foundation offered her a scholarship of 10,000 francs for one year. Gatet was then subsidized by the National Fund for Scientific Research (CNRS), which granted her a half-scholarship of 12,500 francs. She also won many other scholarships. Involvement in the resistance In Bordeaux, before the Second World War, Gatet met with a group of Catholics led by Jesuit Father Antoine Dieuzayde at the foyer Henri Bazire. Many of them worked at a Catholic summer camp that he founded near Barèges, which was also organized to support refugees from the Spanish Civil War. This group was known as the "Barégeois Bordeaux." In June 1940, Father Dieuzayde and most of the other members of the