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The face of Simone Touseau is known internationally: she appears in the photo taken by Robert Capa, photojournalist present at Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) August 16, 1944. Designated like thousands of other women to have collaborated, the young Chartraine holds in her arms a baby who is branded with a hot iron.
This photograph went around the world. She moved, sometimes inspired authors or actors of the cultural world like Jean-Philippe Daguerre and is today the centerpiece of a new podcast of the radio French Culturewhich has just published six fifteen-minute episodes on La tondue de Chartres.
With local speakers
Documentary filmmaker Nedjma Bouakra brings in Gerard Leray, the story et Philippe Fretigne, authors of La tondue – 1944-1947, Fabrice Virgili, historian, specialist in relations between men and women during the two world wars, director of research at the CNRS, Reinhard Huppenbauer and the inhabitants of Chartres.
The France Culture investigation will paint a portrait of Simone Touseau, her family and contextualize the photo in an attempt to remove the mysteries that hover around it.
Episodes are available in click here.
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