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Chevalière of the Legion of Honour. Ginette Dior (2 August 1917 – 17 June 2008), better known as Catherine Dior, was a French Resistance fighter during World War II. Involved with the Franco-Polish intelligence unit F2 from November 1941, she was arrested in Paris in July 1944 by the Gestapo, then tortured and deported to the Ravensbrück ...
Here's the true story of Catherine Dior. ... Catherine became a Resistance operative during World War II, having fallen in love with a fellow Resistance member named Hervé des Charbonneries, whom ...
The Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant, a design of engraver Frédéric de Vernon, is a 36 mm wide cross pattée made of gilt bronze. On the obverse, over the central medallion of the cross, a relief Cross of Lorraine overflowing onto the four cross arms which are covered in laurel leaves. On the reverse, the relief inscription on ...
Marc Bloch (1886–1944), historian, founded the Annales School of historiography. France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), chemist, bomb-maker for the Resistance. Tony Bloncourt (1921–1942) Marc Boegner (1881–1970) Cristina Luca Boico (1916–2002) Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (1922–1942), assassinated admiral François Darlan.
Maisie Williams plays Christian Dior's sister, a French resistance fighter, in the Apple TV+ series 'The New Look.'
Tom Murray looks back on the feuding between Dior and Chanel, and the key role that Dior’s family played in the French Resistance. IN FOCUS: A new Apple TV+ drama starring Ben Mendelsohn ...
Françoise Dior. Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior (7 April 1932 – 20 January 1993) was a French socialite and neo-Nazi underground financier. She was the niece of French fashion designer Christian Dior and Resistance fighter Catherine Dior, who publicly distanced herself from her niece after she married British neo-Nazi activist Colin Jordan in ...
Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior. Game of Thrones star Williams takes on an entirely different type of role in French resistance fighter Catherine Dior, the sister of Christian."She's not someone ...