Claire Chevrillon (1907–2011)
Autor/a de Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance
Obres de Claire Chevrillon
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Chevrillon, Claire
- Data de naixement
- 1907
- Data de defunció
- 2011-10-12
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- France
- Llocs de residència
- Paris, France
- Professions
- teacher
resistance fighter
librarian
memoirist - Relacions
- Chevrillon, Andre (father)
Taine, Hippolyte (great-uncle) - Organitzacions
- French Resistance
United Nations
French Cultural Library, Tunis, Tunisia - Premis i honors
- Legion d'Honneur
- Biografia breu
- Claire Chevrillon was born to a family of upper-class, assimilated French Jews. Her father was André Chevrillon, a famous writer and literary critic and a member of the Académie française. During the German Occupation of World War II, she joined the French Resistance, working in the code service, where she encrypted and sent messages to the Free French government in London. She was betrayed to the Nazis in 1943 and spent four months in the Fresnes prison, but survived. After the war, she returned to her career as an English teacher. Her memoir Une Résistance ordinaire (An Ordinary Resistance), was published in 1999. She was the subject of the book Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance by Claire Chevrillon, Jane Kielty Stott and John F. Sweets (1995).
Membres
Ressenyes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 24
- Popularitat
- #522,742
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
- Llengües
- 1
I was surprised at how mobile Claire was. She travelled back and forth to the coast, Paris and places in Vichy during the occupation. She spoke of the security measures in place to keep Vichy under the rule of Germany - but as a citizen (and a woman - a mild-mannered, middle-aged one at that), she didn't experience much harrassment. She writes of food shortages, the rare visitors that could provide information on the war, and how she got involved in the Resistance as a decoder. She was betrayed and spent four terrible months in jail, all of which she describes in her unfalteringly matter-of-fact voice.
This definitely isn't an exciting book. There's no forbidden love story or tales of great valor in battle or anything like that. There is a lot of good background information on the groups involved in the Resistance. I would suggest this book to someone who was interested in the role of women in the Resistance - someone who can handle a memoir, with its limited scope, viewpoint, and information.… (més)