Germaine trillian biography of barack
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Germaine Tillion
French anthropologist, member of the French Resistance in World War II (1907–2008)
Germaine Tillion (30 May 1907 – 18 April 2008) was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France.
Germaine trillian biography of barack
A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she spent time in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Biography
Tillion was born on May 30, 1907, in Allegre (Haute-Loire) in south-central France.[1] She was the daughter of Lucien Tillion, a magistrate, and Émilie Cussac Tillion.[2] Her mother was also noted as an art historian and a French resistance fighter.[2][3] She had a sister called Francoise and they were raised Catholic.[4]
Youth and studies
Tillion spent her youth with her family in Clermont-Ferrand.
She left for Paris to study social anthropology with Marcel Mauss and Louis Massignon, obtaining degrees from the École pratique des hautes études, the École