Antoinette Sasse
Presentation
She was elegant, wearing clothing from the great designers –Jeanne Lanvin, Lucien Lelong, and Maggy Rouff. Her address book was brimming with contacts—politicians, diplomats, bankers, aircraft manufacturers as well as artists—giving her free rein of chic Paris. Asserting herself as a Fauvism painter, friend of Léger, Soutine and Van Dongen, Antoinette had exhibitions in several salons. As a savvy businesswoman, she increased the fortune she had inherited and maintained an extraordinary lifestyle. She was a member of the Resistance from the summer of 1940 and became a valuable assistant to Jean Moulin, who had been dismissed from his position as a prefect and had moved to the South of France in Saint-Andiol, where he worked for the Resistance. In addition, Antoinette worked for the Gilbert network in 1942, which was run by her brother-in-law, Colonel Groussard. After the war, she put her determination to good use in a quest for the truth about Jean Moulin’s arrest until justice was done. Her fight for the great resistance fighter’s memory led her to bequeath her entire fortune to the city of Paris to create the Jean Moulin Museum, inaugurated in 1994.
CURATORS: Christine Levisse-Touzé, Curator General, Director of the Museum of General
Leclerc and the Paris Liberation - Jean Moulin Museum; Dominique Veillon, Honorary
director of research, CNRS; Sophie Kurkjian, Doctor in History and Associate Researcher
at the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent IHTP-CNRS
Admission information
Adress :23, allée de la 2e D.B. - Jardin Atlantique(Above Montparnasse Train Station)75015 ParisPhone :+ 33 (0)1 40 64 39 44Opening hours :Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.Closed on Mondays and public holidays. Access :Different possible access to the garden :-Place des cinq Martyrs du Lycée Buffon-Gare Montparnasse : Take the stairs on the left of TGV rails n°3-2 outside elevators (n° 4 rue du Cdt Mouchotte or n°25 du bd Vaugirard)Métro : Montparnasse-Bienvenüe (line 4, 6, 12, 13) , Gaîté (line 13), Pasteur (lines 6 et 12)Bus : 28, 58, 88, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96Velib' : 5 rue du Commandant Mouchotte, 4 rue Alain, in front of 1 rue de Cotentin, 25-31 Boulevard de VaugirardAutolib' : 20 Boulevard de Vaugirard, 78 avenue du Maine, 2 place de Catalogne
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ANTOINETTE SASSE. REBELLE, RÉSISTANTE ET MÉCÈNE <br />Exposition du 12 Avril 2016 au 29 Janvier 2017 <br />Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin <br /> <br />L’exposition « Antoinette Sasse. Rebelle, Résistante et mécène (1897-1986) », dédiée à une femme d’exception et amie intime de Jean Moulin, ouvrira ses portes le 12 avril 2016 au musée du général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et de la Libération de Paris – musée Jean Moulin. <br /> <br />Plus d'information : <br />http://museesleclercmoulin.paris.fr/les-expositions/exposition-antoinett...