EPISODE · Oct 31, 2019 · 57 MIN
54. Women At War 2: The Schoolteacher (Berthe Auroy)
from The Land of Desire: French History and Culture · host Diana Stegall
Why is it that knowing how to remain alone in Paris for a year in a miserable room teaches a man more than a hundred literary salons and forty years’ experience of ‘Parisian life’? ― Albert Camus, diary entry, 1940 It’s the continuation of my new miniseries on a subject extremely near and dear to The post 54. Women At War 2: The Schoolteacher (Berthe Auroy) appeared first on The Land of Desire.
What this episode covers
Part 2 of a series about French women's experiences during World War II. Berthe Auroy adjusts to a strange half-life under the German Occupation of Paris.
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