Title: A life of her own : a countrywoman in twentieth-century France /
Authors: Carles, Emilie, 1900-; Destanque, Robert.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Carles, Emilie,; Teachers France Briançonnais Biography.; Farmers France Briançonnais Biography.; Pacifists France Briançonnais Biography.; Briançonnais (France) Biography.; France History
Abstract: A French woman reflects on the roles she played in the changing 20th-century.
Contents: A Tree That Died for Want of Sap -- Wolves in the Valley -- Tied Down on a Mule -- A Family Portrait -- Learning to Read -- They Died for Their Country -- And the Wind Would Carry Me Off Like a Bird -- Just As It Was in the Middle Ages -- Farewell, Joseph -- Thou Shalt Not Kill -- "It's When You Spits" -- Beware the Loose Woman -- Three Stories Plus One More -- One of Their Own -- Fatback and Wine-Soaked Bread -- The Story of Marie-Rose -- If I'd Been a Washerwoman Beside a Stream... -- "Joseph, You're a Thief!" -- A Second Family -- You Have a Right to a Life of Your Own -- Paris Is Well Worth a Mass -- Against All Comers -- Does Your Teacher Hit You? -- My Four Wards -- The Golden Age -- Like a Bird Fallen from the Nest -- The Phony War -- Nine Names for a Hostage List -- Schoolteacher in Val-des-Pres -- Farewell to Jean Carles -- The Wolves Are Back -- November 11, 1977.