Career
She was never executed, partly due to a campaign on her behalf conducted by Simone de Beauvoir. She was born to a bourgeois family at Rouen in 1919. She arrived in Algeria in 1948 as the wife of Pierre Minne, a professor of Philosophy.
She remarried in 1950 to Abdelkader Guerroudj (nicknamed "Djilali"), an activist in the FLN. Guerroudj died on 18 January 2015 in Algiers, Algeria.