A Heroine of the French Resistance Gets Her Own Portrait

A Heroine of the French Resistance Gets Her Own Portrait

THE ART SPY: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, by Michelle Young In 1980, while living in Belgium, the historian Lynn H. Nicholas read an obituary in The International Herald Tribune of the art curator Rose Valland, a French Army captain who had received the Legion D’Honneur for recovering more than 60,000 artworks stolen during World War II. Nicholas was struck by the sheer number of works — and wondered what h…