Code Name Christiane Clouet [Paperback]

Claire Chevrillon (Author), John F. Sweets (Foreword), Jane K. Stott (Translator)

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press (April 1 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 089096629X
ISBN-13: 978-0890966297
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,811,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A witness to the bleak fate of French Jewry in Nazi-dominated France, this remarkable author recounts her experiences from 1939 to 1945 in a personal though emotionally reserved way that makes her family's tragedies particularly poignant. Her parents were upper-class, assimilated Jews; her father, Andre Chevrillon, was a member of the French Academy, a man Edith Wharton called "the first literary critic in France." An English teacher in Paris when war broke out, Claire gives abundant details about the first days of the occupation, when France became a nation divided between the Petainists and those less willing to accommodate Hitler's designs. In 1942, as repressive laws limited Jewish freedom (Claire's mother was effectively imprisoned by her fear of leaving home wearing the yellow star), as her brother-in-law languished in a POW camp and her cousins were persecuted and eventually deported, Chevrillon joined the resistance, first in air operations and then in the code service, where she encoded and decoded messages between the free French government in London and de Gaulle's Paris delegation. Chevrillon, who had contact with some of the most prominent members of the resistance, was betrayed in 1943 and spent four harrowing months in prison. The author's goal was "to set forward the facts... not to analyze myself or my characters." But her story, told without elaboration, is as dramatic and compelling as any fiction. Illustrations.
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While several classic memoirs of the Resistance exist, relatively few have been written by women. Chevrillon, the scion of a prominent literary family, was head of the Code Service for Paris and the main link in the lines of communication between the Resistance and the Free French government in London. It was Chevrillon and her team who coded many of the telegrams published in Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's Is Paris Burning? Highly readable and moving, her memoirs recount in vivid detail the hardships of living under occupation, the deportation of her Jewish relatives, and the difficulties of life in prison, where she spent four months. Chevrillon's empathy for her compatriots and her sensitive appreciation of the simple pleasures of life in the midst of war make this an inspirational and enlightening story. This book should appeal not only to scholars of French and women's history but also to general readers interested in accounts of the war years.?Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting , Touching and Powerful, April 25 2012

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First off,this was a real page turner for me. Paris in the early forties... the Nazis...the Resistance. This book is well-written, exciting, terrifying, but also quite life- affirming. There are moments within this horrific moment in history when people risked their own lives not only for their political beliefs and their country, but for other human beings...often strangers.You get this sense that they were all in it together. I finished it with a feeling of hope and pride in humanity. I highly recommend it.

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