The Art Spy: A Conversation with Author Michelle Young
February 5 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
In The Art Spy, Michelle Young tells the thrilling, true story of Rose Valland, a World War II French resistance hero. When the Germans occupied Paris in 1940, they made the Jeu de Paume museum their headquarters for processing the art they plundered in France, mostly from Jews. The Germans allowed Valland, a museum employee, to remain at work, assuming she was a lowly functionary who could oversee the building’s maintenance. They didn’t know she was an art expert, understood German, had a photographic memory, and was working with the French Resistance to secretly track and sabotage German art thefts.