Code name Christiane Clouet
Subtitle: a woman in the French Resistance
By: Claire Chevrillon ; translation by Jane Kielty Stott ; foreword by John F. Sweets.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780890966280; 9780890966297
Subjects: Chevrillon, Claire, 1907-; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Paris; World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French; Guerrillas -- France -- Paris -- Biography; Paris (France) -- History
Description: In 1943 Claire Chevrillon (code named Christiane Clouet) became head of the Code Service in Paris for General de Gaulle's Delegation and served as the main link in the lines of communication flowing between the Free French Government in London and the Delegation (Provisional Government) in France. It was Chevrillon and her team who coded many of the telegrams in Is Paris Burning? Until now, little has been published about this unglamorous but vital aspect of the French Resistance.

Chevrillon's memoir gives abundant detail about what daily life was like for the French elite during the German occupation. Her father, a scholar and literary critic who had been raised by his celebrated uncle, philosopher-historian Hippolyte Taine, put her in contact with the upper circles of French culture. Her mother, who was from a large, assimilated Jewish family, gave her firsthand knowledge of the persecution of French Jews.

Her story vividly portrays the wartime experience of private lives and public events, including the tedious backroom work of the Resistance and four months she spent captive in Paris's dreaded Fresnes prison.
Notes: Translation of an unpublished manuscript.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index.