Magda Fontanges (10 May 1905 â€" 1 October 1960), also known as
Madeleine Coraboeuf, was a French actress, journalist and a spy for
the Germany Secret Service between 1940 and 1943.Born in 1905, the
daughter of the painter Jean Coraboeuf [fr] in Pouille-les-Coteaux,
Fontanges lost her mother at age seven. By the age of 17 she was
married, only to divorce two years later. Another source suggests that
it was at 18 years of age, just after leaving school, that Fontanges
married a police official. After the separation, she moved to Paris
and took the surname Fontanges, the name of a former Louis XIV
mistress.By 1925 she became a known figure in Parisian society,
frequenting political and diplomatic circles. She was considered by
the press "a beautiful French actress". In 1935, she became a
journalist. As a news correspondent in Rome during 1936, she met and
befriended Benito Mussolini.In 1937 Fontanges was found guilty of
shooting Count Charles de Chambrun, the then French Ambassador to
Rome, at the Gare du Nord on March 17. Reports explain that M. de
Chambrun was wounded as he alighted a train in a revenge attack;
Fontanges accused him of ruining her "love affair" with Mussolini. She
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