Mademoiselle Chambon
2010
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film Not in the English Language 1998 · Nominated
In 1996, Lucie was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for her heroism during World War II. The 1997 film Lucie Aubrac, which stars Carole Bouquet as Lucie, is about her efforts to rescue her husband. She herself endorsed the film.
- A Born Rebel
- Wartime Love Story
- Joining The Resistance
- Outwitting The Gestapo
- National Heroes
- Post-War Legacy
Lucie Bernard was born in 1912 in the small commune of Châtenay-sur-Seine in north-central France, southeast of Paris. As a teenager, she rebelled against her parents’ wishes by refusing to train as a primary school teacher, a solid position that would have helped her working-class family move up the social ladder. Instead, she moved to Paris by he...
In 1939, she met and fell in love with Raymond Samuel, an engineering student from a well-to-do Jewish family. Later that year, she was preparing to leave for the United States, having won a scholarship grant. But on September 1, four days before Lucie was to sail for New York, German troops invaded Poland, prompting Britain, France and other Allie...
Unlike many in France, Lucie was never under any illusion that Pétain’s government headquartered in the spa town of Vichy, was legitimate. In the fall of 1940, following her tried-and-true principle of le refus, Lucie became one of the earliest members of the French Resistance, the growing movement dedicated to undermining the Vichy regime. Even as...
On June 21, however, Raymond was arrested again, along with the chief Resistance leader Jean Moulin, in a Gestapo raid in the Lyon suburb of Caluire. Barbie and his officers beat and tortured both men; Moulin would later die from his injuries. It was while Raymond was being held in Montluc prison that Lucie—pregnant with their second child at the t...
Exposed and wanted by the Nazis, the Aubracs went into hiding with their young son, moving from safe house to safe house until they were finally evacuated to Britain in February 1944. (Lucie gave birth to a daughter, Catherine, only days after their arrival.) The Allied press celebrated the couple—and especially Lucie—for their heroism, and held th...
The Aubracs’ triumphant post-war return was tinged with sadness, as Raymond’s parents had been deported to Auschwitz in January 1944. Lucie began teaching history again and would spend the rest of her life speaking to thousands of students about the Resistance. She also campaigned against discrimination, and on behalf of progressive causes, such as...
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Mar 16, 2007 · March 16, 2007 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. Lucie Aubrac, a hero of the French Resistance who helped free her husband from the Gestapo and whose dramatic life story became a...
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Mar 18, 2007 · By Douglas Martin. March 18, 2007. Lucie Aubrac, a French schoolteacher whose melding of romance and resistance to Nazi occupation not only made her resemble Ingrid Bergman’s character in...
Mar 16, 2007 · Lucie Aubrac, who has died aged 94, was one of the legendary figures of the French resistance, so famous that in 1997 her story was made into a colourfully romantic film in which she was played...
Feb 26, 1997 · Lucie Aubrac. Claude Berri. Stars. Carole Bouquet. Daniel Auteuil. Patrice Chéreau. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 1.4K users. 12 User reviews. 24 Critic reviews. 61 Metascore. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 3 nominations total. Photos 50.
Mar 16, 2007 · She received the Legion of Honor, France's highest award, for her work in the Resistance. After the war, Ms. Aubrac became a vocal critic of French policy in Algeria, its then-colony in North...
