A Resistance Story
One day in 1966, the young Aude Yung-de Prevaux is confronted in the Bibliotheque Nationale by an old man who insists she must be the daughter of the Resistance heroes Jacques and Lotka de Prevaus of whom she has never heard. That evening she challenges her mother, who to her amazement confirms the old man's account. When her real father's trunks arrive from Casablanca, where they have been kept by her Polish godfather since the war, she starts piecing together the lives of her true parents whom the de Prevaux family, who deplored Jacques' second marriage, have kept a tight-lipped silence.
Her father, Jacques Trolley de Prevaux, was a good-looking vice-admiral with gift for diplomacy and a penchant for literature, bohemian company and opium. Her mother, Charlotte Leitner, was an American-born Polish Jew, who worked as a fashion model in Paris and as a demonstrator for Elizabeth Arden. Following the surrender of the French navy in1941, for more than two years until their betrayal and execution on the orders of Klaus Barbie only days before the allied troops captured Montluc, Jacques and Lotka (as Vox and Kalo) were key figures in the Resistance in the South of France. This is their story.
