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Rolande R. Faucon collection, 1939-1954, Date acquired: 04/27/1998, bulk 1940

 

Summary

Creator:
Faucon, Rolande R.
Extent:
2.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Rolande R. Faucon collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_98_0427.

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 2 photographs, a press clipping about Faucon's artwork, and an oral history narrated by Faucon.

Rolande R. Faucon lived in Mareuil Sur Ay, Marne, France during World War II. Germany began occupying France after the English retreat in the Spring of 1940. She was a teenage citizen of France when the Germans invaded her town. According to Faucon, the village of Mareuil sur Ay was situated along the Marne River, making the village a prime target for German bombing and transport. Once the Germans occupied the village, Faucon and her family kept to a strict curfew of lights out and food rationing. Her older brother Eli Poulard was sent to a German labor camp for three years where a small sum was deposited in his parents' names. She also describes the deportations of Jews and non-Jews from Gare of Epernay. Gare of Epernay was a crossroad for train transports between Northern France and Germany.

Biographical / historical:

Rolande Faucon (1924-2022) was a French painter, teacher, and a survivor of the German occupation of France during World War II.

Rolande Roberte Poulard was born on November 16, 1924 in the village of Fontaine-sur-Ay, in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. She was the third child of Louise and Victor Jules Poulard.

Faucon lived in Mareuil Sur Ay, Marne, France during World War II. She met the American soldier Ivan Val Faucon in Reims, and married him in October 1944. In March 1946, the Faucons moved to the United States.

She earned an AAS Degree from Arizona Western College in 1974, and later taught French Cooking there.

Faucon passed away on March 23, 2022.

Acquisition information:

Rolande Faucon

donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

creator

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Rolande R. Faucon collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_98_0427.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA