Les Filles de la section Caméléon | Martine Marie Muller

EAN : 9782258197886

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 512

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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The Girls from Chameleon Section

Martine Marie Muller

Collection : Terres de France

Release date : 02/06/2022

The war of 1914 experienced from the perspective of the female workers of the Chameleon Section, who become experts in the art of camouflage. Marie Muller turns to a little-known page of French history and pays a powerful homage to a community of women working together in solidarity.

On the very day that the war of 1914 breaks out, the heroine of this book knocks her husband unconscious when he tries to rape her. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on her bicycle to Amiens where she manages to find work at a velvet factory under the... On the very day that the war of 1914 breaks out, the heroine of this book knocks her husband unconscious when he tries to rape her. Thinking she has killed him, she flees on her bicycle to Amiens where she manages to find work at a velvet factory under the name Colline La Chance. She settles in La Citadelle, an abandoned village that is gradually occupied by war widows, rejected young mothers, elderly women and other marginalised groups. Under the guidance of the Parisian painter Scévola, the head of the Chameleon Section, two hundred women are trained up in the art of camouflaging the army. Over the course of three years, they will play their part in saving soldiers’ lives by making fake trees for observation, fake cows and horses, fake haystacks, ‘chameleon’ jackets, and kilometres of tarpaulin and leaf camouflage netting. The novel recounts the lives of these defiant women working together in solidarity, learning to survive, and rediscovering their self-respect by following the example of Colline La Chance.

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EAN : 9782258197886

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 512

Size : 140 x 225 mm

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