France Under the Swastika: An American Woman Writes of the Daily Struggle to Clothe and Feed Her Family

Fanny Craig Ventadour is an American, widow of a Frenchman. She is at present living in Haute Savoie, France, in the unoccupied area near the Swiss border. Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, she spent her childhood in New Orleans and has lived in France since 1923. Iler husband was Jacques Ventadour, businessman and author.

Mrs. Ventadour served as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Battle of France. Before the war she worked in dressmaking shops in Paris. She has two children, a boy and a girl, 15 and 9 respectively. An article dealing with her experiences as an ambulance driver appeared recently in The Atlantic.