Posted on 08/30/2015 9:11:05 AM PDT by Reverend Saltine
With the hint of a smile, Simone Segouin stares nonchalantly into the camera with a submachine gun slung over her shoulder. It is a startling image of the young French freedom fighter – and it would soon become iconic.
It comes from a colour film, shot by Hollywood director George Stevens in August 1944. It immortalises an 18-year-old Simone shortly after she helped capture 25 German soldiers in her home village of Thivars, south west of Paris. The defiant teenager gazes back at the lens, dressed in blue shorts, a black-and-white top with a red sash and a khaki cap, her hand placed on her Schmeisser MP-40 gun.
Days later, this unlikely young woman would be hailed a hero. Storming into Paris to help liberate the French capital from the Nazis, her bravery would lead to her becoming a symbol of female resistance around the world.
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“No, i regret nothing.”
je le parle....
Just put Edith Piaf in mind.
Just one of the 150 million French resistance fighters at the closing of the war? ;)
hollywood marketing
heroes are always needed
foci of attention to both motivate and perpetuate
modern mythology; nothing wrong with it
mythology tells us how to be and how to not be
myths are the same in every culture, every era, and every where
i do
great days
grea era
great personalities
great character
probably won’t be matched anytime soon
gone for now
but DNA and human mythology always resurfaces; always manifests; always wins in the end
they used to put the liberals and progressives out on the ice floes at night and leave them there, so that the tribe could survive
She’s cute! I’d hit it.
‘Bout seventy years too late for that, mon vieux.
That was unexpected!
Every now and again I like to suprise everyone.
No, I mean I’d hit it at her current age of 88.
[[It was a passionate and long-lived romance but the pair never married. They had six children – all of whom were given her maiden name on their birth certificates.]]
Six kids, but no marriage. She doesn’t regret that? That’s so French.
Yup. Lots more people in La Resistance after the war, than during it.
a great tale
i would make her descended from Booudica and some eternal spirit goddess
would make a great novel
each child, except for ne, would go on to carry the battle onward, for truth, justice, and the human way....
Heh, heh! But at least this WWII heroine is still with us.
But isn’t it strange how the more time that passes since 1945, the closer to us it seems to get? IMO it’s the color newsreels & home movies that continue to surface, not having been viewed in all those years. Computer enhancement makes some footage seem like it was filmed yesterday.
Not like those grainy timeworn B&W newsreels we grew up with.
Storming into Paris to help liberate the French capital from the Nazis, her bravery would lead to her becoming a symbol of female resistance around the world.
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The only thing that caused the Boche to leave Paris in August 1944 was the fact that the Allies were closing in. Twas not the resistants.
And it certainly was not DeGaulles Free French army, which entered Paris first (at DeGaulle’s insistence) in US uniforms, US trucks, US tanks, all carrying US arms.
i jes’ report ‘em man
frankly, she looked over hyped and over marketed
but as i’ve said, that’s fine
we need heroes
we need heroines
we need Mythology to show us How To Be
and How Not To Be
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