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[[File:Janet_Teissier_du_Cros.jpg|thumb|right|Janet Teissier du Cros]]
'''Janet Teissier du Cros''' (born '''Janet Sinclair Craigie Grierson''';
== Personal life ==
Born '''Janet Sinclair Craigie Grierson''' on 26 January 1905 in [[Aberdeen]], her parents were Mary and [[H. J. C. Grierson|Herbert Grierson]], scholar and academic. Janet was the youngest of five girls who grew up in a prosperous, literary household: living in Aberdeen until 1916 and then at 12 [[Regent Terrace]], [[Edinburgh]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The People of Carlton Hill|last=Mitchell|first=Ann|publisher=The Mercat Press|year=1993|isbn=1873644-183|location=Edinburgh, UK|pages=62}}</ref>
Her musical talent took her to study in [[Vienna]]. Back in Edinburgh, she met François Teissier du Cros, engineer and physicist, and married him at the end of 1930. They went to live near his family in the [[Cevennes]], southern France, and this is where her wartime memoirs are set. In 1944, she hitch-hiked north on a US army vehicle to find her husband.<ref name=obit>Obituary
==Family==
Janet and François Teissier du Cros and their four children lived in Paris for many years after the war, but moved back to the Teissier du Cros home at Mandiargues near [[Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort]] in 1972. French economist {{Interlanguage link multi|André Teissier du Cros|fr}} is one of her children. Two of her sisters were writers: Molly Dickins, author of ''A Wealth of Relations'', and Flora Grierson, who co-founded the [[Samson Press]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Teissier du Cros |first=Janet |title=Le chardon et le bleuet: une Écossaise dans la France occupée récit |last2=Causeur |first2=Florence |last3=Chastagner |first3=Claude |last4=Vaché |first4=Jean |last5=Cabanel |first5=Patrick |date=2017 |publisher=Rouergue |isbn=978-2-8126-1207-7 |series=L'estive au Rouergue |location=Arles}}</ref>
== Writing ==
Teissier du Cros’ book ''Divided Loyalties'' (1962) tells the story of her experiences as a British woman in occupied France, in the Cevennes where the [[French Resistance|Resistance]] was active. Her husband was away much of the time, initially with the army, and she was often uncertain about where he was and what he was doing.<ref name=obit/> She lived in a small rural cottage with her young children, and struggled to get enough food for the family, while estranged from her in-laws because of disagreements about their support for [[Marshal Pétain]]. Reviewers praised the book for the quality of the writing as well as the compelling personal story of a strong woman dealing with an extraordinary situation.<ref name=obit/><ref>'Paperbacks' ''The Times'' June 20, 1992</ref> A few years later she was invited to write features about France for the ''[[Glasgow Herald]]''.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19681015&id=Bts9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=9UcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1673,2822712&hl=en ''Glasgow Herald'', 15 Oct 1968]</ref>
In 1992, after her death, there was another edition of ''Divided Loyalties'', with a foreword by [[Richard Cobb]] who said the author succeeded in relating "dramatic public events" to "everyday existence". Janet Adam Smith contributed an afterword which updated readers on the lives of people in the book. In 2014 a society, ''Les Amis
Teissier du Cros’ translation work included ''Maouno'' by Robert Crottet (1941), the story of a friendship between a boy and a reindeer, and commissions for the journal, ''Revue France-Asie.''
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===Sources===
* [https://books.google.
* Obituary by Janet Adam Smith, ''The Independent'', 20 October 1990, p42
* [https://books.google.
* [https://books.google.
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