Matisse was shocked when he heard that his daughter Marguerite, who had been active in the Résistance during the war, was tortured (almost to death) by the Gestapo in a Rennes prison and sentenced to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.
Matisse, inače apolitičan, bio je šokiran kada je čuo da je njgova kćerka Marguerite, koja je bila aktivna u francuskom pokretu otpora tijekom rata, bila mučena (gotovo do smrti) u zatvoru u Rennesu i osuđena na koncentracijski logor Ravensbrück.