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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

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Rather, she completely achieves her goal of making us understand – the women of this time were faced with extremely difficult choices, often under extreme pressure and with limited options.

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Adam Sisman of the Literary Review said “In Anne Sebba, Ethel Rosenberg has found the ideal biographer, sympathetic without being blind to her faults and with a sure understanding of the period … Her portrayal is compelling”. In the San Francisco Chronicle Carl Rollyson described the book as a "compassionate account of Ethel's character as a wife and mother" and an "engrossing narrative". We hear what happened to all of the women we met at the end of this book and this is a compelling and intelligent read. Anne Sebba’s book is filled with examples of how male soldiers could not abide the idea of a woman in power. One of the greatest scenes from the hit French television series Un Village Français, a chronicle of the second world war viewed from a village in the Jura mountains, involves the execution by firing squad of the local Milice française, the paramilitary group created by Vichy to combat the resistance.

This lovely metal tea set is decorated with pretty flowers in shades of peach, yellow, white and pink. Actress Corinne Luchaire, the South African dancer, Sadie Rigal, a Comtesse, an Indian princess, a Scot married to a Frenchman, a French opera singer and many, many more. So unprepared had France been for defeat that resistance had had no time to organise in these early days and those who did want to act against the Nazis didn’t know how. The story of these women is incredibly moving and a must read for anyone who cares to understand womens place in history during this period. It was an account of the pianist Harriet Cohen, who inspired the composer Arnold Bax when she wore a dress adorned with a single daffodil and became his mistress for the next 40 years.

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Whether it is women running resistance safe houses, concierges hiding Jews or stealing their silverware, or famous names such as Coco Chanel, Violette Morris and Edith Piaf drawing their own lines in the sand, all together they provide a thought-provoking insight into this city in wartime. The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist.

Women were doing things just as brave and dangerous as the men": Anne Sebba talks to Matt Elton about her book exploring the stories of 1940s Parisian women – resistance members, collaborators and those simply trying to survive in an occupied city.

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