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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Fabrice Liegeois, setting a novel in Voorheesville
Description: Fabrice Liegeois was raised and shaped by the grandmother he adored, Jeannine Robert. A blonde beauty who looked like Marlene Dietrich and spoke five languages, she killed an SS officer who fell in love with her during the German occupation of France. She knifed him in order to save her best friend, a Jew. The young women fled to Paris. Robert used the copy of “Mein Kampf” that the Nazi officer had given her as a sort of passport when she smuggled papers for the French resistance. When Liegeois was 8, he saw the American film “Heaven Can Wait” and thought of the f...