And now I know how Joan of Arc felt

Author Monique Saigal-Escudero visits Googler's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss her book "Héroines françaises 1940-1945: courage; force et ingéniosité" also known as "French Heroines 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity". For more info, please visit http://www.collegenews.org/x5376.xml Monique Saigal is a professor of French at Pomona College, in Claremont, California. She teaches courses in French literature, French films and French culture. Monique's first book entitled Lécriture, lien de mère à fille chez Jeanne Hyvrard, Chantal Chawaf et Annie Ernaux explored the mother-daughter relationship as metaphor in the works of three contemporary French writers. Her latest book, French Heroines 1940-1945: Courage, Strength and Ingenuity, shares the stories of eighteen women in the French Resistance who are little known yet who stood out because of their extraordinary courage. Professor Monique Saigal, a child Holocaust survivor, was taken in by a Catholic family in 1942 and wanted to honor the women profiled in her book as well as her grandmother, who perished at Auschwitz. Eager to discover the secrets of other women in the Resistance like Lucie Aubrac, she crisscrossed France, Switzerland and California to film and hear them tell their own stories. Reading these accounts takes us back to a time of terror when women fought back with every ounce of strength and wit at their disposal. We find out who they were, why they fought against the enemy at such a young age and what they did during the war and after.

Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and chair of the Department of English, spoke at the Oct. 1 Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. He discussed Clones and Chimeras: Medical Monsters in Literature and Film. Can novels, stories, and movies do more than scare the public about the important challenges raised by stem cell research, cloning, organ transplantation, the use of animal tissue in humans, and other developments in the biological sciences? Do the arts have a role to play in helping people consider the complex ethical and social issues posed by the latest science?

Claudia, Nikki, Yu Tian, Andrea, Karyn Their group's Macbeth production! They were really really funny! And good! Literature project

On August 4, 1944, acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.

During the French Revolution, beheadings of the monarchy had become more popular and Catherine rescinded many of the reforms she had created.

A brief glimpse into the life of Ernest Hemingway and some of his more notable lifetime achievements.

Mata Hari, the archetype of the seductive female spy, is executed for espionage by a French firing squad at Vincennes outside of Paris.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 -- 1950); playwright, novelist, critic. Shaw's first stage successes, Arms and the Man and Candida, both of them "pleasant" plays, were produced in 1894. The success only grew from there.

Fedor Dostoyevsky and Peter Ustinov in St Petersburg talk of Russia, beliefs, philosophy