• Welcome
• FOREWORD
• VOLUME 1: Russian
• VOLUME 2: French
• VOLUME 3: Stateless
• VOLUME 4: Jewish
• Chap. 1 > Issy-L'v que
• Chap. 2 > Status of the Jews
• Chap. 3 > Mr Marshall.
• Chap. 4 > H tel des Voyageurs
• Chap. 5 > Writing, surviving
• A final book
• APPENDICES
• Information
  Practices

Jewish

Chapter 3: “Monsieur le Maréchal.”

Having learned of the government’s intentions regarding Jewish nationals, Irène Némirovsky wrote to the new head of state to request that she be differentiated from “undesirable”.

Letter to the Secretary-General of the Department of Agriculture and Loire, 13 September 1940.
© Irène Némirovsky Fund / IMEC