Agnès Humbert (1894–1963)
Auteur de Notre guerre : Souvenirs de Résistance, Paris 1940-41 - Le Bagne - Occupation en Allemagne
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Agnès Humbert
Notre guerre : Souvenirs de Résistance, Paris 1940-41 - Le Bagne - Occupation en Allemagne (1946) 453 exemplaires
Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Humbert, Agnes(September 2, 2008) Hardcover 1 exemplaire
Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France 1 exemplaire
Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War by Humbert, Agnes(September 2, 2008) Hardcover 1 exemplaire
Vu et entendu en Yougoslavie 1 exemplaire
* El impresionismo 1 exemplaire
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Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Humbert, Agnès
- Nom légal
- Humbert, Agnès
- Date de naissance
- 1894-10-12
- Date de décès
- 1963-09-19
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cimetière communal, Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- France
- Pays (pour la carte)
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France
- Lieu du décès
- Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
Valmondois, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France - Études
- Ecole du Louvre, Paris
Faculté de la Sorbonne, Paris - Professions
- Conservatrice (Musée)
Journaliste
Critique d'Art - Relations
- Cassou, Jean (Collègue)
Sabbagh, Georges Hanna (Epoux, 19 28 | 19 44)
Sabbagh, Pierre (Fils)
Humbert, Charles (Père)
Rooke, Mabel Wels Annie (Mère)
Vildé, Maurice (Condisciple, Résistance) (tout afficher 8)
Tillion, Germaine (Condisciple, Résistance)
Oddon, Yvonne (Condisciple, Résistance) - Organisations
- Résistance(magazine)
Musée de l'Homme - Prix et distinctions
- Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
Médaille de la Résistance - Courte biographie
- Agnès Humbert est une conservateur et critique d'art française.
Née d'un couple français-anglais, Son père est sénateur français et sa mère écrivaine anglaise. En 1916, elle épouse Georges Hanna Sabbagh, un artiste égyptien, avec qui elle aura deux fils; le couple divorce en 1934.
Agnès étudie l'histoire de l'art à la Sorbonne et à l'école du Louvre. Son premier livre, sur le peintre Jacques-Louis David, est publié en 1936. Elle travaille comme historienne au Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires et intervient en tant que critique d'Art à la radio.
Après la prise de Paris par les Allemands en 1940, Agnès Humbert s'engage dans la Résistance suite à l'appel du général de Gaulle du 18 juin sur Radio France de la BBC encourageant les Français à résister à leurs occupants. Avec des collègues et des amis tels que Boris Vildé, Jean Cassou et Yvonne Oddon, elle forme le Groupe du Musée de l'Homme. En quelques mois, le groupe construit un réseau souterrain très efficace. Il créé le journal clandestin Résistance et obtient des informations pour les Alliés. En 1941, Humbert et d'autres membres du groupe sont dénoncés à la Gestapo et condamnés à mort. Agnès et des membres de son groupe sont envoyées en travaux forcés dans des camps et des usines en Allemagne. Elle y reste durant quatre ans avant d'être libérée par l'armée américaine en juin 1945.
Agnès Humbert installe des soupes populaires pour les réfugiés et aide à lancer le processus de dénazification.
Après la guerre, elle reprend son activité de conservatrice et écrit des livres sur l'histoire de l'art. Elle reçoit la Croix de Guerre avec palme argenté pour son héroïsme en 1946. Elle publie son journal de guerre sous le titre Notre Guerre en 1946; il a été réédité et traduit en anglais sous le titre Résistance (2008).
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Wow. What a story. I have read many different books about WWII, fiction and non, including one autobiography by a specific young Frenchwoman who helped many Jewish children in France. This memoir - part journal, part memoir, expands on that theme. It is the story of Agnes Humbert, who helped form and worked in the French Resistance, risking her life many times and landing in prison because of her efforts. In prison she was surrounded by others also in the resistance and there are startling movie-like incidents that take place there. Why isn't this a major motion picture?
It was first published in France in 1946. It contained a copy of her diary up to a certain date, and after that her memories of what happened, written after the war. There are many questions about her original diary, which it is certain she did maintain, and about what may have been left out of it in the publication. The facts in the book have been verified as much as is possible and there are details about the persons listed in the book at the end.
It was a sensation in 1946 but for some reason did not get published in the US until 2008, long after her death. I for one would love to see a film made of it. It reveals just how the resistance tended to work in a day-to-day fashion, something many of us want to know.… (plus d'informations)
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/13155309
Wow. What a story. I have read many different books about WWII, fiction and non, including one autobiography by a specific young Frenchwoman who helped many Jewish children in France. This memoir - part journal, part memoir, expands on that theme. It is the story of Agnes Humbert, who helped form and worked in the French Resistance, risking her life many times and landing in prison because of her efforts. In prison she was surrounded by others also in the resistance and there are startling movie-like incidents that take place there. Why isn't this a major motion picture?
It was first published in France in 1946. It contained a copy of her diary up to a certain date, and after that her memories of what happened, written after the war. There are many questions about her original diary, which it is certain she did maintain, and about what may have been left out of it in the publication. The facts in the book have been verified as much as is possible and there are details about the persons listed in the book at the end.
It was a sensation in 1946 but for some reason did not get published in the US until 2008, long after her death. I for one would love to see a film made of it. It reveals just how the resistance tended to work in a day-to-day fashion, something many of us want to know.… (plus d'informations)
Humbert kept a journal relating events as they happened when Paris fell to the Germans in June 1940. With few men left in the civilian population, what became known as the French Resistance was organized by women. The early entries describe the shock and dismay at what is happening to her beloved city and country, when she was inspired to do something, if only to spread information. She met others with the same goal, and together they printed a newsletter titled Résistance, the first use of the word that eventually gave the name to the movement. When Humbert's activities were discovered by the Gestapo in April 1941, although they had little to go on, she was arrested and immediately imprisoned.
At her trial she was given 5 years in prison and sent to a forced labour camp. From this point the book gives an account of the extraordinarily horrific experiences as a slave labourer, but written soon after her liberation in April 1945. Because this section continues in journal format, it serves to show the prolonged time of extreme, agonizing ill-treatment. During this time she maintained her resistance, sabotaging every product she worked on.
After her liberation, she again kept a journal, reprinted as the final section in the book, making only the middle section written from memory. There are many outstanding features in her account, the most noted being that she retained her positive attitude, sense of humour and consideration for other prisoners. When she was liberated, the German town of Wanfried was in chaos and Humbert took a leading part in the organization of facilities, food supply, medical treatment to the townspeople, prisoners, and huge population of army personnel, many of whom behaved like hooligans. Conditions were quite different to the idea many of us might have about liberation where everyone is suddenly free, and ready to go home. She appreciated the difference between Nazis and those who were forced into the party and used the information to form a method of identifying Nazis which led to many arrests. Humbert's contribution to the war effort, resistance, and recovery was extensive and nothing short of heroic.
Her book, one of the first about the war years in France and slave labour camps was published in January 1946 although not translated until 2008. The Afterword by Julien Blanc is of particular interest by filling in the details of Humbert's life, her process of writing the book and the Resistance movement. There is also an extensive appendix detailing documents on the Resistance, translator's notes, bibliography and index. A highly recommended five-star read.… (plus d'informations)
At her trial she was given 5 years in prison and sent to a forced labour camp. From this point the book gives an account of the extraordinarily horrific experiences as a slave labourer, but written soon after her liberation in April 1945. Because this section continues in journal format, it serves to show the prolonged time of extreme, agonizing ill-treatment. During this time she maintained her resistance, sabotaging every product she worked on.
After her liberation, she again kept a journal, reprinted as the final section in the book, making only the middle section written from memory. There are many outstanding features in her account, the most noted being that she retained her positive attitude, sense of humour and consideration for other prisoners. When she was liberated, the German town of Wanfried was in chaos and Humbert took a leading part in the organization of facilities, food supply, medical treatment to the townspeople, prisoners, and huge population of army personnel, many of whom behaved like hooligans. Conditions were quite different to the idea many of us might have about liberation where everyone is suddenly free, and ready to go home. She appreciated the difference between Nazis and those who were forced into the party and used the information to form a method of identifying Nazis which led to many arrests. Humbert's contribution to the war effort, resistance, and recovery was extensive and nothing short of heroic.
Her book, one of the first about the war years in France and slave labour camps was published in January 1946 although not translated until 2008. The Afterword by Julien Blanc is of particular interest by filling in the details of Humbert's life, her process of writing the book and the Resistance movement. There is also an extensive appendix detailing documents on the Resistance, translator's notes, bibliography and index. A highly recommended five-star read.… (plus d'informations)
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VivienneR | 41 autres critiques | Sep 1, 2016 |
VivienneR | 41 autres critiques | Sep 1, 2016 | Resistance is the journal of Agnes Humbert, a resident of Paris who writes of the German occupation of Paris. She was forty-three at the time and her first instinct was flight. She left Paris but returned a few weeks later. She and a friend formed one of the first resistance cells in Paris, which was unfortunately betrayed in 1941. Her colleagues were executed and she was deported to Germany and spent years as a slave labourer.
This felt like I was peeking over her shoulder and reading her diary. I received a first hand look at what a French woman felt and did when she saw her country fall. She personally did not surrender, she both fought and suffered to help free her country. Her years in Germany as a forced labourer were truly horrifying and stand as a testament to the degree of human suffering the Nazis inflicted on others.
Translated by Barbara Mellor this book is the story of one woman’s war. Some of the small details caused joy such as her seeing a Stefan Zweig book in the bookseller’s window one day but when she went back later, it had been removed and included on the list of banned books yet the bookseller slipped her a copy anyway. Of course other details of her years of suffering were difficult to read about but Agnes Humbert was a remarkable woman with a zest for living and courage to spare.… (plus d'informations)
This felt like I was peeking over her shoulder and reading her diary. I received a first hand look at what a French woman felt and did when she saw her country fall. She personally did not surrender, she both fought and suffered to help free her country. Her years in Germany as a forced labourer were truly horrifying and stand as a testament to the degree of human suffering the Nazis inflicted on others.
Translated by Barbara Mellor this book is the story of one woman’s war. Some of the small details caused joy such as her seeing a Stefan Zweig book in the bookseller’s window one day but when she went back later, it had been removed and included on the list of banned books yet the bookseller slipped her a copy anyway. Of course other details of her years of suffering were difficult to read about but Agnes Humbert was a remarkable woman with a zest for living and courage to spare.… (plus d'informations)
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Women in War (1)
Female spies (1)
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- Œuvres
- 11
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- 2
- Membres
- 470
- Popularité
- #52,371
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 42
- ISBN
- 25
- Langues
- 8
Agnes Humbert's secret journal, translated for the first time into English,describes these events with immediacy, intelligence, and humor."… (plus d'informations)