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Countesses Of The Gestapo
The countesses of the Gestapo (french: Les comtesses de la Gestapo) were elite adventuresses of the Paris demimonde protected by the French Gestapo and large-scale black marketeers during the German occupation of France. The Gestapo countesses led extravagant lives despite the misery prevalent in Vichy France at the time. They were French or foreign former actresses or runway models, sometimes in fact truly aristocratic, who engaged in a variety of lucrative practices such as the confiscation of Jewish assets, espionage or black market operations. Countess Mara Tchernycheff An actress known by her stage name, Illa Meery, Tchernycheff in 1934 was one of several pretty girls with improbable names, displaying her tanned curves and platinum blondness as an extra in a soft-porn pot-boiler filmed on the Cote d'Azur, ''Les aventure du roi Pausole'', based on the novel by Pierre Louys. She later appeared topless in '' Zouzou'' as a foil to ''années folles'' sensation Josephine Baker. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demimonde
is French for "half-world". The term derives from a play called , by Alexandre Dumas , published in 1855. The play dealt with the way that prostitution at that time threatened the institution of marriage. The was the world occupied by elite men and the women who entertained them and whom they kept, the pleasure-loving and dangerous world Dumas immortalized in the 1848 novel and its many adaptations. Demimondaine became a synonym for a courtesan or a prostitute who moved in these circles—or for a woman of social standing with the power to thumb her nose at convention and throw herself into the hedonistic nightlife. A woman who made that choice would soon find her social status lost, as she became . The 1958 film '' Gigi'', based on a 1944 novella by Colette, vividly portrays the world of the demimonde near the end of its existence. Gigi's Aunt Alicia, a legendary courtesan now enjoying a wealthy retirement, trains her teenage niece in elegant manners and deportment and the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Lafont
Henri Lafont (born Henri Chamberlin, 22 April 1902 – 26 December 1944) was a French criminal based in Paris who headed the French Gestapo during the Nazi German occupation in World War II. He was executed by firing squad on 26 December 1944 alongside corrupt policeman Pierre Bonny and footballer-turned-criminal Alexandre Villaplane. See also * Carlingue * Georges Delfanne * Rudy de Mérode * Auguste Ricord *Milice The ''Milice française'' (French Militia), generally called ''la Milice'' (literally ''the militia'') (), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the F ... References *Magazine ''Historia'' Hors Série n°26 1972 by Fabrice Laroche *''La Bande Bonny-Lafont'' ed. Fleuve noir, 1992 by Serge Jacquemard, *''Les comtesses de la Gestapo'' ed. Grasset, 2007 by Cyril Eder, *''The King of Nazi Paris'' by Christopher Othen, Biteback, 2020, External linksUnofficial site on Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collaborators During World War II Occupations
Collaborator or collaborators may refer to: * Collaboration Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ..., working with others for a common goal * Collaborationism, working with an enemy occupier against one's own country ** Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II Books * ''Collaborators'' (play), a 2011 British play * ''Collaborator'' (novel), a 2003 alternate history novel by Murray Davies *''The Collaborator'', by S. L. Stebel 1968 *''The Collaborator'', by Gerald Seymour 2011 * The Collaborator (Mirza Waheed novel) 2011 *''The Collaborator'', by Margaret Leroy 2011 Film and television * ''Collaborator'' (film), a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Martin Donovan * ''The Collaborators'' (film), a 2015 independent British film * "Collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Miniac
Jean-François Miniac (born 1967), better known under his pen name Solidor, is a French comic book creator (writer and artist). He was born in Paris on 17 February 1967 and lives in France. After a few drawing lessons taken at Hergé from 1976 to 1978, in 1987 he had a formal training in the visual arts at the Gobelins School of the Image in Paris. In 1994, Claude Lefrancq, a Belgian comic publisher, asked Rosalind Hicks to publish Hercule Poirot's comic book, showing her the Blake and Mortimer's comic book, ''Mortimer versus Mortimer''. In 1995, with the novelist François Rivière, French Agatha Christie specialist, Miniac drew his first cartoon series, "Agatha Christie", published at Lefrancq publishing, in Edgar P. Jacobs's spirit, in schematic style. It was a success. After the publisher went bankrupt in 2000, EP publishers (La Martinière group, Paris) published the comic books, the first one in October 2002 and the second one in February 2003. In four years, 20 000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marga D’Andurain
Marga d'Andurain (born Jeanne Amélie Marguerite Clérisse; May 29, 1893 – November 5, 1948) was a French adventurer and suspected criminal. During her lifetime, she was accused of espionage, drug trafficking, selling pearls and diamonds on the black market, as well as killing her two husbands and godson, but none of these claims have been conclusively proven. D'Andurain is noted for attempting to become the first female European to enter the holy city of Mecca. She was murdered aboard her yacht, the ''Djéïlan'', at the age of 55. Biography Childhood and youth Marguerite was born in the family of magistrate Maxime Ernest Clérisse, a judge at the Bayonne court, and housewife Marie Jeanne Diriart. She had a younger brother named Pitt and a sister, Mathilde. Raised in a provincial, traditional Catholic theology, Catholic environment, the young Marguerite was always considered a rebel in her community. She scoffed at the conventional education given to young women at the tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Collaboration In Vichy France Police collaboration in Vichy France was part of the Vichy government's external political objectives and emerged as an essential tool of collaboration in meeting its policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. Oath of state On 14 August 1941, a decree signed by Philippe Pétain required all civil servants to take an oath of loyalty to him. An official ceremony took place for the police on 20 January 1942, during which 3,000 delegates from the Paris Guard, the National Police and the P |
