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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparkling José Comtesse de Chambrun, daughter of onetime Premier Pierre Laval, was still more typical of the average French wartime wives, thousands of whom have taken over their husbands' businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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