Femmes françaises. Journal de l’Union des femmes francaises. Hebdomadaire paraissant le jeudi. 16 novembre 1944

Paris: Union des Femmes Françaises, 1944. Magazine. 3-18 pp., illustrations, wraps. 12.25 x 9.5 in. Covers lightly toned around the edges.

An issue of the official journal of the Union des Femmes Francaises (Union of French Women) founded in 1881. This issue announces the recently concluded first congress of the UFF since the liberation of Paris in August 1944. The leading story is about the women partisans, saboteurs, and arms smugglers who resisted German occupation. Also includes a story on Sylvia Pankhurst and the history of women’s suffrage in the UK (the back cover urges women to register to vote, in accordance with de Gaulle’s granting the vote to women earlier in the year, though women’s suffrage was not codified as law until 1945). Also includes a story on high fashion, with an introduction justifying the place of fashion in war-torn France.

Cat.No: 298893

Price: $45.00