Word: frenchwoman
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...Frenchwoman [who lived] in France during all the German occupation [and who] saw them in Nice, July 1944, in the middle of the afternoon in front of all the population, hang two young Maqu's men. ... It was with tears in my eyes that I read those terrible words "Odious & Disgusting" [TIME, May 6], criticizing . . . your own boys, liberators, conquerors of all Europe ! With, as you said, only a bar of chocolate to offer, this same G.I. always gave it to an old woman, child or starving girl friend. In Nice 20,000 G.I.s came every week...
...secluded old house in the Luxembourg forests, twelve men were hard at work. Now & then, an ample Frenchwoman served food and hot coffee. A Luxembourg police officer shivered outside in the cold rain. His job: guarding "Operation Annie," the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe...
...life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine; but our final impression of her always is that she is a woman, and a Frenchwoman...
...Paris a man's suit cost $500. A correspondent stopped to get his jeep repaired in Neufchâteau. The garage operator, a brawny Frenchwoman, immediately questioned him about American soldiers sleeping with German girls. "C'est incroyable" she mourned. "Yes, some French girls slept with Germans when they were here. But only bad girls. We do not understand why you Americans do it. You are not bad but you still sleep with Germans." An American sergeant lounged at a nearby corner watching the thin traffic in Neufchâteau's one big street; he turned loose...
...budge. Why should I budge? A German colonel came. He told the concierge he loved only three things in the world-flowers, birds and Colette's novels." When she was asked if she would go to Berlin on Hitler's invitation, she answered: "My conscience as a Frenchwoman will dictate to me what I should...