From a clandestine underground bunker among the stinking sewers of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, young mother of two Cécile Rol-Tanguy would climb 100 steep steps and emerge onto the city’s streets carrying her infant daughter while pushing her baby son in his stroller.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Cécile Rol-Tanguy, who helped liberate Paris from the Nazis, dies at 101
By Phil Davison
May 13, 2020 at 2:42 p.m. EDT