Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

One Mean Mother

  Don't revolutionary movements always seem to include a semi-mythical woman warrior who aided the endeavor, sometimes with her very life? And unlike the seasoned, trained men who so often participate in conflicts, she seems to require a civil background to contrast with her martial achievement. Perhaps this is a modest nod to valor and martial prowess of that half of the population who are not considered to be fighters. This woman is fighting to overthrow the Nazi oppressors who have controlled her city for over three years.


 Her polka-dot dress and steel helmet complement her stick grenades perfectly.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

I Can Not Resist

  This unnamed belle of the French resistance was photographed in Paris on August 29, 1944. She had killed two Germans already in the fighting.


French military styles are so fabulous!