Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris

ISBN-13: 9780190681548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Paula Schwartz

Recenzje

On Mother's Day, May 31, 1942, a group of women stormed the Eco grocery store in the sixth arrondisse- ment of Paris. It was a Sunday morning, and the street was crowded. The women tossed tins of sardines to the crowd and urged the women to help themselves. A struggle broke out between the shop manager and shop assistants on the one hand, and some of the women on the other, with several of the demonstrators getting trapped inside the store...For Vichy, it was a crime against the state. For the Germans, it was an act of terrorism. For the communist underground, who had organized it to protest food shortages, it was "a heroic act of people's justice".

O autorze

Paula Schwartz is the Lois B. Watson Professor of French Studies at Middlebury College, where she teaches courses on 20th-century France, food studies, and European studies. Her scholarship focuses on women and gender in the French Resistance, the French Communist underground, and daily life during the Second World War. She has lived and worked extensively in France.