Shosanna Dreyfus
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Mademoiselle Marie aka Anais Guillot, WWII French Resistance Fighter also Sgt. Rock's Lover.
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Anne Frank
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Joan of Arc
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Pauline Kael, the incendiary New York Times film critic
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In DC Comics continuity, Mademoiselle Marie is a code-name for a series of female French spies and assassins. (It's a job description not a name.) In the Sergeant Rock comics, the Anais Guillot Mademoiselle Marie was Rock's lover. She also famously threatened to kill the Unknown Soldier once the war was over, but never carried out the threat because she died before the war ended.
(I could have used a real picture of Anne Frank, but it is the fictional version of Anne Frank that I mean not the real one. The version of Anne that we carry in our heads because of the books and plays and films. A character as fictional as Oliver Twist or Lucy Ricardo.)
She said, I’m tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
A wedding dress or something white
To wear upon my swollen appetite.
-Leonard Cohen, Joan of Arc
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