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  • Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille (Auschwitz Explained to My Daughter) Paris: 1999; Les Biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande (The Belongings of Internees in the Drancy, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande Camps).

    Annette Wieviorka. 2009

  • In Pithiviers, France, 3M workers virtually held their bosses hostage by standing guard at the building amid labor talks.

    Today's Photos: March 25 2009

  • That most recent appointment led her in 2000 to publish two detailed studies of the seizing of Jewish belongings under the German occupation: Les Biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande and Le Pillage des appartements et son indemnisation (in collaboration with Florence Azoulay).

    Annette Wieviorka. 2009

  • He has passed his examinations for collector and goes to Pithiviers — unless by pull, we could get him as substitute at

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • When Alain Resnais made his somber masterpiece on Nazi-occupied France, Night and Fog (1955), he was required before the film could be licensed for showing to delete certain scenes in which a French policeman's kepi appears in deportation scenes at the refugee camp at Pithiviers (near Orleans).

    Tricks of Memory Paxton, Robert O. 1991

  • He related how he had lost himself, and learned from the countryman that he was on the road to Pithiviers.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • "La demoiselle Juliette Dodu of Pithiviers," forty-four years ago a telegraphist who outwitted the German invaders, was taken prisoner, threatened with death, treated chivalrously by the "Red Prince" Friedrich

    The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 Various

  • On the occasion of our flight south, nothing on the whole journey happened to give us any concern, save at Pithiviers, where a market-wagon with a staid old farm-horse -- who did not mean any harm -- charged us and lifted off the right mud-guard, necessitating an hour's work or more at the blacksmith's to straighten it out again.

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • Nearly every town in France has its specialty; Pithiviers its _pâté des allouettes; _ Montélimar its _nougat_; Axat its _mousserons_;

    The Automobilist Abroad

  • The only link now with his past lay in the - fact that he had been found abandoned in Pithiviers upon a certain day in June - lay in the evidence which Howard alone could give.

    Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

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