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Talk presented by ArtsNational Cairns “Les Parisiennes – How the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s.” Presented by author Anne Sebba.

Event Contact

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user Gaynor Ellis
Email
cairns@artsnational.au
Phone
0447205891

Event Details

Event Date
17/03/2024 2:00 pm to 17/03/2024 4:00 pm
Event Location
Stratford Library Meeting Room, 11 Kamerunga Rd. Stratford.
Event Price
attach_money $25 for visitors, free for members. Annual Membership $135.
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Les Parisiennes is a story about women’s lives during the Nazi occupation including British and American women caught in Paris, as well as native born resisters who were eventually sent to prison camps, couturiers, and jewelers as well as actors, night club dancers and housewives.

British women worked as secret agents living clandestinely escorting downed Allied airmen from one safe house to another.

The lecture opens with a magnificent circus ball at a chateau in the grounds of Versailles, many guests not believing war was imminent and ends with Christian Dior’s lavish 1947 new look and his perfume Miss Dior.

Biographer, historian, and author of eleven books Anne Sebba lectures in the US and UK, and to the National Trust, British Library, and Imperial War Museum.

Formerly a Reuters foreign correspondent, Anne presents on BBC Radio and television talking about her books, including biographies on Jennie Churchill, Laura Ashley, Wallis Simpson and her latest book Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy published in 2021.

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