Today Sardines Are Not for Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris

by Paula Schwartz

Book Overview

On Mother's Day, 31 May 1942, a group of women stormed a small grocery store at the intersection of two Parisian market streets, the rue de Buci and the rue de Seine, to protest the food shortages that had become a chronic feature of daily life. The then-outlawed French Communist party aimed to channel the frustrations of hungry Parisians by organizing such actions throughout the capital and beyond. The so-called "women's demonstration on the rue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190681543
• ISBN13: 9780190681548
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"