Global Information Lookup Global Information

The Shaved Woman of Chartres information


The Shaved Woman of Chartres (1944)

The Shaved Woman of Chartres (French: La Tondue de Chartres) is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Chartres on 16 August 1944. This picture was first published in Life magazine and became iconic of the épuration sauvage (wild purge) enacted after the liberation of France and the severe punishment imposed on the French women accused of so-called horizontal collaboration with the German occupiers.[1]

  1. ^ "L'Épuration | Robert Capa". December 11, 2012.

and 10 Related for: The Shaved Woman of Chartres information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8353 seconds.)

The Shaved Woman of Chartres

Last Update:

The Shaved Woman of Chartres (French: La Tondue de Chartres) is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Chartres on 16 August 1944. This...

Word Count : 412

Robert Capa

Last Update:

picture The Shaved Woman of Chartres, taken on August 16, 1944, shows a woman whose head has been shaved as a punishment for collaboration with the Nazis....

Word Count : 4642

Horizontal collaboration

Last Update:

Shaved Woman of Chartres. In the 2000 film Malèna, a woman in wartime Sicily is punished for her beauty and her liaisons with German soldiers by the local...

Word Count : 975

University of Paris

Last Update:

the school of Notre-Dame in the eleventh century include Lambert, disciple of Fulbert of Chartres; Drogo of Paris; Manegold of Germany; and Anselm of...

Word Count : 7424

Slavery in the United States

Last Update:

self-expression, the skin of slaves was in many instances allowed to be made into leather for furniture, accessories, and clothing. Slave hair could be shaved and...

Word Count : 35466

History of prostitution in France

Last Update:

seducers. The cathedral of Chartres has a stained glass window of the Parable of the Prodigal Son which was given by prostitutes, in the same way that other...

Word Count : 6854

Persecution of Christians

Last Update:

known to have been motivated by the notion of persecution of Christians by Muslims. According to Fulcher of Chartres, the pope described his holy wars as...

Word Count : 33760

French Resistance

Last Update:

The chief promoter of unification was a former préfet of Chartres, Jean Moulin. After identifying the three largest resistance groups in the south of...

Word Count : 32998

Wartime collaboration

Last Update:

condemning an alleged massacre of Chartres civilians by French Senegalese troops. Moulin refused to collaborate, knowing that the bombing massacre was carried...

Word Count : 3938

Persecution of Muslims

Last Update:

According to Fulcher of Chartres: "Indeed, if you had been there you would have seen our feet coloured to our ankles with the blood of the slain. But what...

Word Count : 29688

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net