320 Rue St Jacques, The Diary of Madeleine Blaess, The Diary of Madeleine Blaess

Author

Michallat, Wendy ; Madeleine Blaess

Year

2018

Publisher

White Rose University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-91248-212-2

Link

Last Update

30-Mar-2026

Keywords

History

Description

By the time Madeleine began writing her diary in October 1940, Paris had been under German occupation for four months. October 1st, was, she wrote, an appropriate time to start writing it because it marked the return to work after the long summer break. It was the rentrée for workers, for schoolchildren, students and their teachers and lecturers. October 1940 also signalled the rentrée and the return to daily routine for the hundreds of thousands of French people and Parisians who had joined the exode – the panicked flight to the south of the country in the face of the...