Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée
Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée

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Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée

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2024
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Communist, resistance fighter, deportee, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier is one of the great heroines of the 20th century. Nicknamed Maïco, she became a photojournalist and embraced the class struggle at the same time as she fell in love with one of the figures of the Popular Front, Paul Vaillant-Couturier. During World War II, she joined the Resistance and later gave decisive testimony at Nuremberg.