Endpapers Rue de Rivoli during the Occupation (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto) here Monument to the Vél d’Hiv round-up at La Place des Martyrs (Guy Bouchet / Photononstop / Corbis here Women with gas-mask cases (Tallandier / Bridgeman) here Miriam Sandzer (Private collection) here Exodus in Paris (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto) here Odette and Robert Fabius (Courtesy of the family of Odette Fabius) here Le Juif et la France exhibition (LAP / Roger-Viollet / Getty) here Bombed ruins of Paris (Mondadori Portfolio / Getty) here Hélène Berr with her family in Aubergenville (Memorial de la Shoah) here Milice distributing furniture confiscated from Jews to victims of Allied bombing (Art Media / Print Collector / Getty) here Company of French dancers and singers on a performance tour of Germany (United States Holocaust Memorial) here Prisoners at Ravensbrück concentration camp (ADN-Bildarchiv / Getty) here Tondue after the Liberation (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto) here American soldiers outside Chanel on Rue Cambon (Serge Lido) here Victory celebrations (AKG / Paul Almasy) here Denise Dufournier (Courtesy of the family of Denise Dufournier) here Elisabeth and Robert Maxwell (E. J. J. Maxwell Estate) here Maternity ward on New Year’s Day (Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho / Getty) here Caroline Ferriday (Bellamy-Ferriday archives) here Christian Dior fashion show (Pat English / Getty) here US soldiers with French women at a Parisian funfair (AKG / Tony Vaccaro) here Inauguration ceremony at the Pantheon of Geneviève De Gaulle and Germaine Tillion, 27 May 2015 (Hervé Champollion / AKG) here Odette Fabius awarded the Légion d’honneur, 1971 (Private collection)
FIRST PLATE SECTION
Feminists demonstrating at the Longchamp race course (Imagno / Getty)
Germaine Lubin (Private collection)
Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, at the circus ball, 1 July 1939 (William Vandivert / Getty)
Aimée de Sotomayor at the ball in Dior (William Vandivert / Getty)
Couple at the railway station after general mobilization (Roger-Violett / Topfoto)
Notice in a shoe shop indicating a shelter for customers (Roger-Violett / Topfoto)
Jeanne Lanvin’s cylindrical bag for a gas mask (Diktats Bookstore)
Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in her suite at the Ritz Hotel (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Irène Némirovsky (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Corinne Luchaire publicity shot (Photos 12 / Alamy)
Bernard Herz (Mémorial de la Shoah)
Refugee women and children fleeing Paris, 1940 (FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty)
Women scrutinize the first official lists of the wounded and captured (Print Collector / Alamy)
German Occupation propaganda poster (Photos 12 / Alamy)
German soldiers outside the Moulin Rouge, summer 1940 (Art Media / Print Collector / Getty)
German auxiliaries (‘Grey Mice’) at Printemps department store (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Dancers at the Moulin de la Galette (Roger Schall)
Queuing for bread during rationing (Keystone-France / Getty)
Workshop to mend mesh stockings (LAPI / Roger-Violett / Getty)
Shopping for underwear with coupons (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Béatrice Bretty as Dorine in Tartuffe (Coll. Comédie-Française)
Looting of the Paris home of former minister Georges Mandel (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Rose Valland (Everett Collection Historical / Alamy)
Jeanne Bucher (Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris)
French Jews and foreigners arrested, 14 May 1941 (AFP / Getty)
Le Juif et la France exhibition at the Palais Berlitz, 1941 (RDA / TAL / Getty)
SECOND PLATE SECTION
Fashion show of the milliner Madame Agnès’s 1941 collection (Private collection)
Day of Elegance on Bicycles, June 1942 (LAPI / Roger-Viollet / Getty)
Open-air hairdresser (Robert Doisneau / Gamma-Rapho / Getty)
1942 evening clutch bag made by Boucheron (Boucheron)
Women and children shelter in a metro station (Robert Doisneau / Gamma-Rapho / Getty)
Two girls with yellow stars, 1942 (Fratelli Alinari Museum Collections-Favrod Collection, Florence / Bridgeman)
Buses used in the Vél d’Hiv round-up on 16 and 17 July 1942 (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
Washing clothes in the courtyard at Drancy (Roger-Viollet / Getty)
Renée Puissant, 1942 (Private collection)
Béatrice de Camondo Reinach (Photo Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris)
Comtesse Lily Pastré (Private collection)
Mother’s Day poster produced by the Vichy government, 1943 (Print Collector / Alamy)
Propaganda to persuade Frenchmen to volunteer for work in Germany (Art Media / HIP / Topfoto)
Film poster for Le Corbeau (Tallandier / Bridgeman)
Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar (Private collection)
Marie-France Geoffroy-Dechaume (Sophie MacCarthy)
Resister distributing leaflets (Robert Doisneau / Getty)
Violette Morris (Roger-Viollet / Topfoto)
The Milice distributing bottles of wine to mothers, April 1944 (LAP / Roger-Viollet / Getty)
Élisabeth de Rothschild (Cecil Beaton / Getty)
Drawing of Odette Fabius at Ravensbrück (Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme / Niels Forg)
Lapin at Ravensbrück (Tallandier / Bridgeman)
Building barricades at Rue du Renard, August 1944 (AFP / Getty)
Sniper fire in the battle for liberation, 26 August 1944 (Imperial War Museums, BU 141)
Armed partisans keep watch, 28 August 1944 (Mondadori Portfolio / Getty)
Jubilation following the Liberation of Paris (Tallandier / Bridgeman)
British troops with food convoy, August 1944 (Imperial War Museums, BU 177)
Public humiliation of a tondue (Art Media / Print Collector / Getty)
Cartier’s 1944 Oiseau libéré brooch (N. Welsh, Cartier Collection / Cartier)
THIRD PLATE SECTION
Christian Bérard’s miniature opera scene for the Petit Théâtre de la Mode (Horst P. Horst / Getty)
Repatriation of women prisoners, April 1945 (LAP / Roger-Viollet / Getty)
Repatriation centre at the Hôtel Lutetia (AGIP / Bridgeman)
Demonstration for women survivors of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Mauthausen, 1 May 1945 (AGIP / Bridgeman)
Parisiennes wearing dresses representing the four Allied flags (Apic / Getty)
Parisian women voting, 13 May 1945 (AFP / Getty)
Noor Inayat Khan (Topfoto)
Violette Szabo (Keystone / Getty)
Trial of Corinne Luchaire, 4 June 1946 (AGIP / RDA / Getty)
Geneviève de Gaulle testifying about Ravensbrück (AGIP / Bridgeman)
Christian Dior’s New Look (Granger, NYC / Alamy)
Catherine Dior (Courtesy of the family of Catherine Dior)
Nusch Éluard wearing Belperron jewellery, photographed by Man Ray (Man Ray Estate / DACS)
Susan Mary Patten (John Rawlings / Getty)
Milliners on strike (AGIP / Bridgeman)
Emma Smith, July 1948 (Robert Doisneau / Gamma-Rapho / Getty)
Julia Child (Paul Child / Schlesinger Library, Harvard University)
Princess Elizabeth in Paris, 15 May 1948 (Keystone / Getty)
The Murphy sisters on the Queen Elizabeth (Private collection)
Germaine de Renty (Claude du Granrut)
Gisèle Casadesus (Author’s collection)
Rachel Erlbaum (Author’s collection)
Renée Fenby
Jacqueline Fleury (Author’s collection)
Rosa Lipworth
Madeleine Riffaud (Author’s collection)
Noreen Riols (Philipppe Petit / Getty)
Cécile Rol-Tanguy (Author’s collection)
Marceline Rosenberg (Dominique Faget / AFP / Getty)
Emma Smith (Suki Dhanda)
Barbara Probst Solomon (Author’s collection)
Arlette (with Charles) Testyler
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