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Only in Paris

Posted Friday, October 11th, 2019 at 14:14

Anne Sebba writes in “Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation” (2016) that she felt justified in using the term “Parisienne” to describe Parisian women imprisoned in camps after learning that one of them repurposed the ounce of fat that she was rationed each day as moisturizer for her hands, “concluding that these needed preserving more than her stomach.”

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