The French writer Julie Héraclès first saw when she was in high school the photograph that Robert Capa took after the end of the Nazi occupation in her hometown, Chartres. "Since I saw it, I've always kept it in mind. It has always intrigued me," she explains. The image shows Simone Touseau, a 23-year-old French woman, with her head shaved and a brand on her forehead made with a hot iron, holding her baby daughter in her arms and next to her mother, who had also been shaved. Both were publicly humiliated by a frenzied crowd on August 16, 1944. The photo is a symbol of the savage purge that took place in France after the Allied victory.