Google decided on Monday to honor a committed artist.
The doodle of the day is dedicated to the writer Claude Cahun, born under the name of Lucy Schwob 127 years ago in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique).
Originally from a bourgeois Jewish family, Claude Cahun had a complicated childhood.
Between her mother's illness and the prevailing anti-Semitism in the high school for girls where she was a student, in the midst of the Dreyfus affair, the artist had to learn to overcome life's obstacles.
A birthday #GoogleDoodle for a revolutionary artist far ahead of their time: French author & surrealist self-portrait photographer Claude Cahun 🇫🇷
Cahun challenged the gender norms of the early 20th-century through art & literature đź–Ľ
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- Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) October 25, 2021
Engaged in the Resistance
During this difficult period, however, she met love: Suzanne Malherbe.
The two women had a clandestine relationship before heading to Paris together after a few years.
It was in the French capital that Claude Cahun then met with success, first in the theater and then through his literary publications.
Committed activists, Claude Cahun and his partner joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (AEAR).
In 1938, the two women bought a farm on the island of Jersey (United Kingdom), then occupied by the Germans between 1940 and 1945. During this period of war, Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe then entered into resistance, says
The Point
.
They published and distributed anti-militarist leaflets before being arrested and then sentenced to death.
The two women were finally released on May 9, 1945. Claude Cahun never recovered from this period.
She died at the age of 60 on December 8, 1954.
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