Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Ah, The French
In a defeated nation suffering foreign occupation and moral collapse, Frenchwomen don the latest eyewear for the camera in Jardin Du Luxembourg in May 1942, exactly twenty-three months after The Fall Of France.
Can there be a more grotesque representation of the ease with which the French adapted to German rule?
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There’s something Vichy about the French.
Ivor Novello
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