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| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| Translator's Note | xvii | |
| A Life of Her Own | ||
| Preface | 1 | |
| Part 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 | A Tree That Died for Want of Sap | 5 |
| Chapter 2 | Wolves in the Valley | 15 |
| Chapter 3 | Tied Down on a Mule | 25 |
| Chapter 4 | A Family Portrait | 31 |
| Chapter 5 | Learning to Read | 41 |
| Chapter 6 | They Died for Their Country | 51 |
| Chapter 7 | And the Wind Would Carry Me Off Like a Bird | 59 |
| Chapter 8 | Just As It Was in the Middle Ages | 65 |
| Chapter 9 | Farewell, Joseph | 73 |
| Chapter 10 | Thou Shalt Not Kill | 79 |
| Chapter 11 | "It's When You Spits" | 85 |
| Chapter 12 | Beware the Loose Woman | 93 |
| Chapter 13 | Three Stories Plus One More | 101 |
| Chapter 14 | One of Their Own | 109 |
| Chapter 15 | Fatback and Wine-Soaked Bread | 113 |
| Chapter 16 | The Story of Marie-Rose | 119 |
| Chapter 17 | If I'd Been a Washerwoman Beside a Stream... | 125 |
| Chapter 18 | "Joseph, You're a Thief!" | 133 |
| Chapter 19 | A Second Family | 139 |
| Part 2 | ||
| Chapter 20 | You Have a Right to a Life of Your Own | 145 |
| Chapter 21 | Paris Is Well Worth a Mass | 149 |
| Chapter 22 | Against All Comers | 153 |
| Chapter 23 | Does Your Teacher Hit You? | 161 |
| Chapter 24 | My Four Wards | 167 |
| Chapter 25 | The Golden Age | 175 |
| Chapter 26 | Like a Bird Fallen from the Nest | 187 |
| Chapter 27 | The Phony War | 195 |
| Chapter 28 | Nine Names for a Hostage List | 209 |
| Chapter 29 | Schoolteacher in Val-des-Pres | 221 |
| Chapter 30 | Farewell to Jean Carles | 231 |
| Chapter 31 | The Wolves Are Back | 239 |
| Chapter 32 | November 11, 1977 | 257 |
| Afterword | 261 | |
| Glossary | 265 |
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Matthew Blumenthal
reviewed A Life Of Her Own on April 30, 2012
A Life Of Her Own
The simply written autobiography of a courageous woman who grew up in a poor and conservative peasant family in the Hautes Alpes of France in the early twentieth century. Given the unusual gift of higher education, she rebelled against the narrow conventions within which she had been raised, speaking out against patriarchy, chauvinism, nationalism, militarism'even the Catholic Church and its God. She saw it as her role as a longtime schoolteacher in her native valley to shape and broaden the perspectives of the peasant children whom she taught, and nearing death in her mid-seventies, reflected that it was "splendid to leave life with the thought that you have done the maximum possible to defend the ideas you believe just and human, and to help those who need to be helped without discrimination." An unusual, thoughtful, albeit sometimes naïve, look at life.
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