Clare Mulley

What did you do in the last war, Maman?

During the Occupation,Parisian women may have faced stark choices between defiance, compromise and collaboration — but they never lost their chic

issue 02 July 2016

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

    Anne Sebba

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 480

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