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Description: | 11 ms diaries (1268pp), kept from 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1944 (barring June - December 1941) while living in France after marriage and emigration from England; the diaries kept between 1914 and 1918 are entirely anecdotal, recounting her daily life in Veauce, London, Bath and Paris; the diary from 1940 contains excellent detail of her experiences in Nazi occupied Paris between June 1940 and May 1941, including the arrival of the German troops on 14 June, the cutting off of the post, telephones, telegrams, the difficulties in obtaining money, food, shortages of soap, butter and tea, the impossibility of leaving the city, fears of war between Vichy France and England, difficulties in trying to obtain passport papers to return to Veauce, her plea to the American embassy when the passport failed to materialize through French means and reports of the Blitz in London in December; she ends by writing that 'the rule of the Germans is most severe'. Upon returning to her home in Veauce on 30 May 1941, the diaries once again regain their anecdotal nature, recounting her daily personal activities. Also included with the collection are a pencil drawing of the Chateau de Veauce dated 1843 and a book of 12 sketches of the chateau from both the exterior and the interior.
Cataloguer KAW
Catalogue date 2006-08-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | de Veauce (Baroness) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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