“Violette Morris, a woman to be taken down” © GÉDÉON PROGRAMS
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Selection In this documentary, Marie-Christine Gambart recounts the tragic fate of one of the greatest French multi-sport champions, accused of collaborating with the Vichy regime and killed by resistance fighters in 1944. Tonight at 10:55 p.m. on France 5.
Violette Morris has disappeared from our collective memory, which is surprising given her exceptional career – winning multiple medals in athletics, football, cycling and motor racing. What about her piqued your curiosity?
Marie-Christine Gambart. About ten years ago, I discovered the book “Violette Morris. Story of a Scandalous Woman” [Perrin, 2011, NDLR], by Marie-Josèphe Bonnet, historian of lesbianism, who questioned the somewhat hazy theories of pseudo-historians of the post-war period on the woman who was given the terrible nickname of “hyena of the Gestapo”.
We know well that women, at the Liberation, particularly toasted m…
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