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Violette Morris, histoire d'une scandaleuse

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VIOLETTE MORRIS

Marie-Josèphe Bonnet

Release date : 24/03/2011

The destiny of an unusual woman, rejected, in spite of considerable talents, in the France of the inter-war era, who ultimately came to incarnate all the demons of one of the blackest periods of French history.
Born in Paris in 1893, the granddaughter of General Morris, she first came to... The destiny of an unusual woman, rejected, in spite of considerable talents, in the France of the inter-war era, who ultimately came to incarnate all the demons of one of the blackest periods of French history.
Born in Paris in 1893, the granddaughter of General Morris, she first came to the fore by serving on the front before revealing herself as an outstanding athlete at boxing, shot put, swimming, women's football, javelin throwing, cycling, and automobile and motorcycle racing. But she was frowned upon for her inexcusable «eccentricities»; not only did she prefer women, she dressed as a man and even had her breasts surgically removed. In 1930, the Women's Sports Federation of France rescinded her license on the pretext that she was a bad example for young girls. In 1937, she shot a man in self-defense on her barge and was subsequently acquitted, but in the eyes of public opinion, she had already become a dangerous woman, a reputation she largely lived up to by dealing with the underworld, collaborators, and Germans during the Occupation. Her garage requisitioned by the Luftwaffe, she became the chauffeur of the secretary general of the government, trafficked in the black market in Normandy, and was suspected of being a Gestapo agent. She was gunned down in an ambush by the Resistance in 1944. At the end of a painstaking investigation of secret service police archives, minutes of post-Liberation trials, and various witnesses in Normandy, the author was unable to establish adequate proof of her guilt. What, then, if Violette Morris herself was the victim of a black legend rooted only in the shadow of truth?

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