SYMHC Classics: April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance

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SYMHC Classics: April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance

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Mar 31, 2018

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Today we're revisiting a talk with fashion historian April Calahan about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Mar 31, 2018

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SYMHC Classics: April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance

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