Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
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Madame (Mme) Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier |
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Marie-Claude Vogel November 3, 1912 Paris |
| Died | December 11, 1996 |
| Citizenship | French |
| Alma mater | Collège Sévigné |
| Era | Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic |
| Employer | Vu, L'Humanité |
| Organization | Resistance, Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotes |
| Title | Députée |
| Term | 1945-1958, 1967-1973 |
| Political party | CPF |
| Criminal penalty | deported to Auschwitz in 1943 |
| Criminal status | transferred to Ravensbrück, stayed after Liberation to care for the sick |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Pierre Villon |
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| Relatives | sister Nadine Vogel, actress;grandfather Hermann Vogel, illustrator |
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (3 November 1912 in Paris – 11 December 1996 in Paris), born Marie-Claude Vogel, was a member of the French Resistance as well as a photojournalist, Communist and later, French politician.
Vaillant-Couturier's father, Lucien Vogel was an editor who created Vu magazine in 1928. Her mother, Cosette de Brunhoff, whose brother Jean de Brunhoff created Babar the Elephant, was the first editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris.
Vaillant-Couturier became a photojournalist at a time when the trade was overwhelmingly male, which earned her the nickname of “the lady in Rolleiflex”. She joined the Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires (AEAR) and in 1934 the Mouvement Jeunes communistes de France (MJCF), the Communist Youth Movement of France, as well as in 1936, the Union of the Girls of France. In 1934, she married Paul Vaillant-Couturier, founder of the Republican Association of Ex-servicemen, a communist and chief editor of L'Humanité, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937. She became a photographer for L'Humanité, which she later took over, and got to know Gabriel Péri and Georges Cogniot.
Attached to the Vu team as a photographer but also as a Germanist, she took part in an investigation in Germany into the rise of Nazism and travelled there in 1933, two months after Adolf Hitler came to power. Her report on the Oranienburg and Dachau camps was published upon her return to France. She also reported for Regards, in particular on the International Brigades. The prohibition of L'Humanité in September 1939 due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact, influenced her change of activities.
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