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Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol.
Story of Women (French: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and the 1986 book Une affaire de femmes by Francis Szpiner.
The last person to be executed for abortion was Marie-Louise Giraud, a faiseuse d'anges (French slang; literally, "maker of angels") who performed abortions in the region of Cherbourg. For her assisted abortions, she was sentenced to death by guillotine on 30 July 1943.
Marie-Louise Giraud was executed on 30 July 1943 for being an abortion provider, which was labeled a crime against state security. [ citation needed ] In the 1950s to the 1970s, the number of executions steadily decreased, with for example President Georges Pompidou , between 1969 and 1974, giving clemency to all but three people out of the ...
Concerned about prisoners' wives having babies, the law of 15 February 1942 made abortion a treasonable offence that carried the death penalty. For having administered 27 abortions, Marie-Louise Giraud was guillotined on 30 July 1942. [72] In December 1942, a law was issued making cohabitation with wives of prisoners of war illegal. [44]
She won the Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actress twice for playing Marie-Louise Giraud in the French drama Story of Women (1988), and a postmistress in the thriller La Cérémonie (1995). She won the César Award for Best Actress twice for La Cérémonie (1995) and Elle (2016).
Marie-Louise Giraud; I. Léon Israël; Z. Jean Zay This page was last edited on 27 December 2018, at 05:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
He also executed abortionists, most famously Marie-Louise Giraud on 30 July 1943, and Giraud's colleague Désiré Piogé on 22 October 1943. [9] He executed at least 19 people for being accused communists, but records between 1944 and 1945 are largely unavailable.