Private Papers of Lady Wilberforce

Well-written memoir (101pp, ts, printed) by Yvette Marie Lenoan, of her childhood in Brittany in the 1920s, giving interesting insights into local customs and language, the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, when she was studying law in Rennes, her experiences of life in France under German occupation, contacts with the French resistance, Allied bombing of German installations in Rennes, the arrival of US troops in 1944, and her subsequent stay in Berlin after the end of hostilities, where her father, Judge Roger Lenoan, worked in the Legal Directorate of the Quadripartite Control Council (she joined the Legal Directorate as a junior member), with interesting vignettes of the work of the Directorate and a visit to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, concluding with her transfer to the Economic Division in 1947.

Catalogue date 1995-01

Cataloguer SWW