Louise Aslanian

She demonstrated her literary gift in school by writing lyrical poems, making literature translations from Russian and French.

In Paris, Aslanian wanted to continue her musical education playing piano, but due to lack of money she had to give up her dream.

In the mid-twenties she published several short stories in the French-Armenian press: "a Coin Collection", "an Iron Wine Seller", "the Swamp", etc.

In 1936, Aslanian joined the French Communist Party and began to collaborate with the Armenian newspaper Manouchian "Zangou".

According to the memoirs of Henry Karajan (member of the "Group of Manouchian"), Louise was a recruiter for (Francs-Tireurs et Partisans) in a combat cell of the French Communist Party, formed in late 1941.

The Aslanians also worked in an underground publishing house and actively engaged in supplying fighters of the French Resistance with weapons.

The Arabic fund of the Matenadaran has a collection of Eastern medieval miniatures with Sufi themes that belonged to Aslanian.

[12] In her works, Las talked about the life of the Armenian diaspora communities that had lost themselves; about their disunity and backward customs, such as blindly following local cultures.

She saw the restoration of national integrity as a return to distinctiveness, in a search for a unique path of development, associated with repatriation and strong links to Armenia.

Louise Aslanian at age 6
Louise Aslanian on a bridge in France. One of the last photographs of her before the arrest (24 July 1944)