Marie-Louise Giraud, abortionist under Pétain - The story (1/2) In 1940, in Cherbourg, during the German occupation, Gisèle was pregnant. But her husband René has to go to work in Germany.
She wants to have an abortion and she turns to her neighbor. Neither of them knows how to do it. Christophe Hondelatte, lawyer at the Paris bar, author of the book “a women's affair” (1986, Balland editions)