Raymonde Peschard

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Raymonde Peschard (September 15, 1927 – November 26, 1957) was an Algerian social worker and freedom fighter in the Algerian War of Independence. She was born in Bologhine, French Algeria, where her father worked as a railway station master. In the 1950s she joined the Algerian Communist Party, but the French crackdown forced her to leave Constantine.

In 1956 she was wrongly accused of helping with the Milk Bar Café bombing alongside Zohra Drif and had to flee from authorities. She then joined the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) and later the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1957, using the code-name "الطاووس" (Peacock in Arabic). She worked as a nurse for the rebels.

On November 26, 1957, near Medjana, Peschard and ten other fighters were killed by the French army. After independence, she was honored as a martyr of the conflict. According to Jean-Luc Einaudi, she was the only Algerian of European descent named a martyr.