This series of caches is based on the theme of the cult BBC
sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo.
There are 10 traditional caches in each of which you will need
to note down a part of the mystery co-ordinates. When you’ve
found all 10, piece together the numbers to get the co-ordinates
for the 11th and final mystery cache – ‘Allo
‘Allo #11, The Fallen Madonna (with the big boobies!). Fans
of the programme may remember this was an oil painting that was
always being hidden, lost, found the generally very elusive –
just like the cache!
Michelle of the Resistence was a tall, thin, dark-haired young
woman who usually dressed in the unofficial "uniform" of the
Gaullist French Resistance, a tan trench coat and black beret
(usually with a silk scarf and a dress underneath). Unlike the
other French characters, she speaks fluent English, and is the only
local person in Nouvion who can communicate with the two downed
Royal Air Force men who are hidden in the town (the only other
character to do this is Officer Crabtree). Her undercover alias is
that of the post mistress in the other village, who has a lisp.
Her recurring catch-phrase (delivered in a faux-French accent)
is: "Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once." She also
has a habit of jumping out on Rene with her gun drawn, and asking
him "are we alone?", even when in a crowded cafe, and has an
obsession with secrecy and disguises. Her usual manner of entering
René's café is through the window in the back room, but on occasion
she has also used the back passage and the front door, albeit
disguised as an old woman, a German soldier, a window cleaner and
once in plain clothes when she "urgently" needed René and Edith to
help her (she had not had time to do her washing).
Although, unlike most of the other women in the show, she is not
even remotely attracted to René , she pretends to be in love with
him at one point to get him to cooperate with her schemes but
explains this to Yvette (following a scene in which Michelle walked
in on Yvette in René's arms, called him a "faithless deceiver" and
René was forced to tell Yvette that "Michelle ze ice-cold
untouchable 'ead of ze Resistance turned out to 'ave ze 'ots for
me") and promises to "do to 'im something very 'orrible" so that
Yvette can have him back when the Resistance no longer needs him.
René himself is not enthusiastic about the Resistance or the
Germans, and would much prefer, given his own inclinations, to just
run his cafe and have affairs with his waitresses.