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Anne Sebba: Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s [2016] hardback ACTIV through the prism of theWINNER OF THE FRANCO BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until finally renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever present. French women wore lipstick. Why? It was women who came face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis perhaps selling them their