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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s.Anne SebbaWeidenfeld and Nicolson £20Review by Dani Garavelli By Dani Garavelli
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock (996420bw)
Soldier with woman
The Liberation of Paris From the Germans - 1940s
Soldiers from a brigade of the 2nd Battalion led by Colonel Langlade is welcomed by a crowd of people at Place de la Muet TWO opposing images have come to symbolise women during the Liberation of Paris. One is of chic girls waving the French Tricolour in front of the Arc de Triomphe. The other is of the femmes tondues , shorn and sexually humiliated for the crime of collaboration