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Michèle Boegner
Michèle Boegner (born August 12, 1941) is a French concert pianist.
At the Paris Conservatory she studied the piano with Vlado Perlemuter and chamber music with Jacques Février. She won her award at the age of fifteen. Thereupon she started an international career and won the Second Grand Prix at the George Enesco Contest at the age of seventeen. In parallel with her career, she subsequently studied at the Scaramuzza school in Buenos Aires and with Wilhelm Kempff and Geza Anda.
Michèle's career has been
that hour in an attempt to bring people away from their radios.
In March 1941, the Calvinist Pastor Marc Boegner condemned the Vichy "statut des Juifs" in a public letter, one of the first times that French antisemitism had been publicly condemned during the occupation. On 5 May 1941, the first SOE agent (Georges Bégué) landed in France to make contact with the resistance groups (Andrée Borrel was the first female SOE agent). The SOE preferred to recruit French citizens living in Britain or had fled to