Face à l'histoire : les Résistantes
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Face à l'histoire : les Résistantes

Often reduced to a handful of romantic clichés - that of a young messenger on a bicycle or a fighter posing with her machine gun slung over her shoulder - women have long remained invisible in the history of the French Resistance. And yet, in a defeated, humiliated country deprived in part of its male population, women were the first to react and initiate a spirit of resistance. Through five individual destinies, this collection highlights the crucial role played by women between 1940 and 1944.

2. Episode 2

7.0Apr 13, 2025 · 41 min

General de Gaulle's June 18 appeal marked the entry of the five heroines into the Resistance. In Nazi-occupied France, in London or on the other side of the Mediterranean, they each fought with their own weapons to honor the famous Resistance slogan: “To obey is to betray; to disobey is to serve”.