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Je vis au USA's. J'espere avoir une reponse Mes respectueux hommages Madame Jacques Drabier. Jacques Drabier le jeudi 15 septembre - Demander un contact. Impatiently, she wipes the glass with her sleeve and shakes her head, perplexed. I have joined her on a nostalgic visit to the settings of her novel, Women's Barracks, which broke taboos by telling of unmarried mothers and lesbian affairs.
We drive on in silence.
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And then, quite suddenly, she lurches forward and shouts to the driver, "Here! Turn here for Hill Street! It may be almost 70 years since she first arrived at this Mayfair address but her recollection of the years she spent as a soldier in Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces is still acute. As I had listened to her telling me stories back in her Paris atelier, the browning photos of uniformed girls in her scrapbooks had ceased to be still images and instead had seemed to dance with the sounds and smells of life in the Gallic Women's Barracks.
She told tales of camaraderie, of women from all walks of life thrown together in an alien country, tales of lonely Christmases singing French carols and desperately trying not to think of home. There were apocalyptic accounts too of watching London burn, of courage in the Blitz and proud memories of moments on the number nine bus when a Londoner would notice her French uniform and lean over to say: Armed with an umbrella and laughing that it rained here incessantly throughout the war, she stands on tiptoe and squints through the windows of the big house which was once her old barracks, beaming.
Capitulation shame I think back to my favourite photograph of her in her frayed albums. It was snapped on the day she first reported to Hill Street, a pretty young girl caught in mid-step, kit bag slung over her shoulder and cheekily smiling sideways at the camera, her eyes sparkling with an infectious excitement.
I had asked her then what possessed a cosseted, convent-educated year-old to leave everything she knew to come to Britain. She had spoken bitterly of the shame she had felt when the Vichy government capitulated to the Nazis in July Cite this Email this Add to favourites Print this page. Catalogue Persistent Identifier https: You must be logged in to Tag Records. In the Library Request this item to view in the Library's reading rooms using your library card.
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