French Resistance Quotes

“He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.”
― Coco Chanel

“In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika banners five or six floors high. I just thought, This is impossible.
Imagine that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives orders: “Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.” To me that was unbearable.”
― Pearl Witherington Cornioley, Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (5)

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”
― Annie Cohen-Solal, Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life

“Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Barricades were being thrown up with fervour. The science of insurrection had been passed down between the generations.”
― André Tollet

“Never have so many men risked their lives for such a small thing; to bear witness. Perhaps it is absurd, but it was by such absurdities that we restored our dignity as men.”
― Roger Stéphane