JOURNALS

Recent articles concerning the years 1930-1950

William I. Hitchcock, France, the Western Alliance, and the Origins of the Schuman Plan, 1948-1950, Diplomatic History, Volume 21 : Issue 4, Fall 1997

FRENCH HISTORY

Sean Kennedy, (University of New Brunswick in Fredericton), Accompanying the Marshal: La Rocque and the Progrès Social Français under Vichy, French History, Volume 15, Issue 2: June 2001, pp. 186-213.

Martin Thomas. (University of the West of England, Bristol), France in British Signals Intelligence, 1939-1945, French History, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2000, pp. 41-66

P V Dutton, (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ) French versus German approaches to family welfare in Lorraine, 1918-1940, French History, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 1999, pp. 439-463

M Torigian, (Alameda, CA, USA), The end of the popular front: the Paris metal strike of spring 1938, French History, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 1999, pp. 464-491

L L Clark, (History Department, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA), Higher-ranking women civil servants and the Vichy regime: firings and hirings, collaboration and resistance, French History, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 1999, pp. 332-359

J I Lewis, (City College, New York, USA), The MRP and the genesis of the French Union, 1944-1948,French History, Volume 12, Issue 3: September 1998, pp. 276-314

J Jackson, (University of Wales, Swansea, UK), The long road to Vichy, (Review article), French History, Volume 12, Issue 2: June 1998, Pages 213-224

P Biddiscombe, (University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) The French resistance and the Chambery incident of June 1945, French History, Volume 11, Issue 4: December 1997, Pages 438-460

S Langlois, (Department of History, McGill University, Canada) Images that matter: the French resistance in film, 1944-1946, French History, Volume 11, Issue 4: December 1997, Pages 461-490

Abstract: "From the August 1944 liberation of Paris until the end of 1945 the French film industry was reorganized, and film production began again. More than a dozen feature films about the French Resistance premiered in 1946. Resisters and critics had called for quality films which would document the struggle of the French Resistance and hopes were high because film itself was believed to have a social and historical mission. Truth, art and restraint were deemed essential. Everyone felt the urgency to recount, to document what had happened. It was important for the French people to anchor and situate the victory in a national perspective and allow national unity to be rebuilt in the spirit of the third item of the republican trilogy, fraternité, it was important for the image of France abroad because of the profound divisions which became visible during the war. Because of the unique nature of the Resistance the widespread supposition was that written sources were almost non-existent, and in the immediate post-war period there was a specific goal concerning film: the ambition was to create visual documents which would be another historical source. This article discusses how such ambition was possible, who entertained it and how successful it was"

P Smith. (University of Nottingham, UK), Political parties, parliament and women's suffrage in France, 1919-1939, French History, Volume 11, Issue 3: September 1997, Pages 338-358

L. Taylor, (Department of History, University of Waterloo, Canada), Collective action in northern France, 1940-1944, French History, Issue 2: June 1997, Pages: 190 – 214

M. Thomas, (University of the West of England, Bristol), The discarded leader: General Henri Giraud and the foundation of the French committee of national liberation, French History, Volume 10, Issue 1: March 1996, Pages: 86 - 111

FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES

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Seth D Armus, The Eternal Enemy: Emmanuel Mounier's Esprit and French Anti-Americanism, French Historical Studies 24.2, Spring 2001

William I. Hitchcock, Pierre Boisson, French West Africa, and the Postwar Epuration: A Case from the Aix Files, French Historical Studies, 24.2, Spring 2001

Jackie Clarke, Engineering a New Order in the 1930s: The Case of Jean Coutrot, French Historical Studies, 24.1, Winter 2001

Paul Schue, The Prodigal Sons of Communism: Parti Populaire Français Narratives of Communist Recruitment for the Spanish Civil War and the Everyday Functioning of Party Ideology, French Historical Studies, 24.1, Winter 2001

FRENCH POLITICS, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

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Steven Ungar, Vichy: Beyond the Syndrome Syndrome?, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1 Spring 2001

Robert Schwartzwald, Dangerous Liaisons in 1940s Quebec: Vichy or la France libre, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1 Spring 2001    (Review essay)

Steven Zdatny, War and Liberation: Histories from Below, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1 Spring 2001    (Review essay)

Robert O. Paxton, Gérard Noiriel's Third Republic, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2000     (Review essay)

Vicki Caron, Ordinary Antisemitism and Vichy Anti-Jewish Policy: The Role of the Legal Profession, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2000     (Review essay)

Jacques Revel, Histoire vs Mémoire en France aujourd'hui, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2000

Abstract: Like most western countries, France has experienced a "memory explosion" over the past two decades: not just overall national memory, but also more specific, particular memories, be they regional or local, ethnic or professional. This phenomenon is especially remarkable in France, where it confronts an old and very powerful tradition of "French History," which used to play a central role in civic education and which has since proven ineffective in that role. This article examines the conflict between "memory" and "history" and its implications.

Claire Andrieu, Women in the French Resistance: Revisiting the Historical record, French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2000

Abstract: This article analyzes a double paradox, historiographical as well as historical. The bibliography on women in the French Resistance is inadequate. Caught between testimony and history, the works in this bibliography do not reach the standard of social history, nor that of standard representation. However, insofar as they dedicate considerable attention to lived experience, these works remain closer to the specificity of resistance combat than academic texts produced over the past twenty years. These works study the Resistance relying on the same methods used to study political parties in modern democracies. The method which will allow for a women's history of the Resistance that does not set aside the fear, death, and torture of the prisons and camps has yet to be created. The other paradox concerns the gap between the women resistors and the image of the "liberated" woman developed since the 1960s. These women lived during the golden age of the domestic family and its "wife-at-home," between the 1930s and 1960s. Half of these women were married and mothers. They were neither feminists nor suffragettes and yet, their action constituted a civic engagement. Their example can serve to renews reflections on both gender and feminism.

Laura L. Frader, Review Essay: Engendering French History Between the World Wars. French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 17, No. 3-4 Summer/Fall 1999 (double issue)

GUERRES MONDIALES ET CONFLITS CONTEMPORAINS

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Jean-Michel Valade. - La lutte contre les francs-maçons sous le régime de Vichy (1940-1944). L'exemple de la Corrèze, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, N° 197,  2000, pp 131-143

Abstract: Less than five weeks after its arrival in power the Vichy government  decided to abolish the Freemasonary. The law of 13 August 1940 orders the dissolution of the secret societies. The authorities conduct searches of the Lodges,  organise the confiscation of their property and the publication of the names of Freemasons in the Journal Officiel. Civil servants who belonged to a Secret Society were dismissed.  In the rural department of Corrèze, seventy Freemasons have their names revealed, twelve are dismissed from public service. Nevertheless, confronted with the Vichy new order, the Freemasons of Corrèze find the means to resist. Four of their number die in the cause of the Resistance.

Yagil Limor. - Le mouvement " Redressement français " et la Révolution nationale de Vichy, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, N° 197,  2000

Thibault Richard. - 1940-1944. L'administration française face à l'occupant en Seine-et-Oise : des relations conflictuelles et ambiguës, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, N° 197,  2000 

L'HISTOIRE

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Annette Wieviorka, Drancy : un monument historique ?, L'Histoire, N° 257 - September 2001

Jean-Pierre Azéma, Les premières victimes de Pétain, L'Histoire, N° 256 - July 2001 (concerns Free-Masons)

Gaël Moullec, De la Wehrmacht aux camps soviétiques. La tragédie des malgré-nous (avis de recherches), L'Histoire, N° 255 - June 2001

Thibault Tellier, Paul Reynaud, fossoyeur de la IIIe République ? L'Histoire, N° 254 - May 2001

Sophie Desormes, Paul Morand. Journal d'un maréchaliste distingué, L'Histoire, N° 253 - April 2001

Jean-Pierre Azéma, Pétainiste ou résistant ? L'Histoire, N° 253 - April 2001 (concerns Mitterrand)

Ingrid Galster, Que faisait Jean-Paul Sartre sous l'occupation ? L'Histoire, N° 248 - November 2000

Sylvie Chaperon, Du droit de vote à la pilule, L'Histoire, N° 245 - July 2000 (concerns women's rights in the post-war period)

Olivier Wieviorka, Enquête sur le 10 juillet 1940. La prise du pouvoir par Pétain, L'Histoire, N° 244 - June 2000

Philippe Joutard et Jean Lecuir, Jean Moulin, héros moderne, L'Histoire, N° 242 - April 2000

"La spoliation fut une étape vers la Solution finale", 
interview with Annette Wieviorka, L'Histoire, N° 242 - April 2000

Marc Olivier Baruch, Vichy ou l'heure de la réforme, L'Histoire,  N° 240 - February 2000 (concerns police under Vichy)

HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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François Bédarida, Winston Churchill’s image of France and the French, Historical Research, Volume 74 : Issue 183, February 2001

Abstract: Although fascinated by France all his life, Churchill was more familiar with the country than with its inhabitants (he mainly knew members of the upper and governing classes). His apprenticeship began early as he learned the language which he liked to speak so much. Both the warrior and the statesman in Churchill admired the military past and the grandeur of Britain’s neighbour, but his strategy towards France always combined realpolitik with genuine friendship. This article concentrates on three periods in Churchill’s relationship with France: 1911–32, 1933–45 and 1945–55. It concludes that Churchill’s ‘finest hour’ won him the lasting admiration of the French people.

HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES

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Renée Poznanski (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel), The Geopolitics of Jewish Resistance in France, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2, Fall 2001, pp. 245-265

Abstract: This article focuses on the role of cities in the development of the Jewish Resistance in France. It tracks the movement of the Jewish population from Paris to cities in the southern, Vichy Zone, and thence to the countryside. It considers the evolution of organizations dedicated to rescue, as well as ideological movements or military groups. Five types of factors were important: (1) the traditional high rate of urbanization of the Jews in France and the resultant social habits that influenced their patterns of concentration during the first waves of internal migration; (2) the evolution of anti-Jewish policy that disrupted this behavior; (3) changes in French public opinion; (4) strategic needs associated with the forms of resistance adopted by each of these movements; and (5) the preference accorded to political aims over assistance and rescue objectives, as the Liberation approached. The analysis shows how functional explanations can be combined with political ones to explain the forms and course of the Jewish Resistance in France.

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

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Simon Kitson, Rehabilitation and Frustration : The Experience of Marseille Police Officers after the Liberation, Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 33, Issue 4, October 1998

John Hellman, Monasteries, Miliciens, War Criminals : Vichy France/Quebec, 1940-50, Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 32 Issue 04, October 1997

Megan Koreman, A Hero's Homecoming : The Return of the Deportees to France, 1945, Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 32 Issue 01, January 1997, pp 9-23

JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

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Gary Wilder, Framing Greater France Between The Wars, Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 14 : Issue 2, June 2001

Abstract: This essay analyzes the relationship between France as an imperial nation-state and the discourse of Greater France that intensified during the interwar period. I am interested in the way that the figure of Greater France sought to stage and reconcile - not justify, rationalize, or mystify - structural contradictions between republican and imperial systems of government. I argue that there is an intrinsic relationship between colonial discourse and its corresponding political form. By posing questions about the status we assign to colonial ideology through the analysis of a series of influential colonial texts, this essay pays special attention to the dissociation of nationality and citizenship that characterized a political form composed of a metropolitan parliamentary government articulated with a colonial administrative regime. I hope to reframe the familiar discussion of the proliferating representations of empire that circulated in metropolitan France after World War One. The figure of la plus grande France that developed then allows us to interrogate the French imperial nation-state at a doubly paradoxical historical conjuncture characterized by the consolidation of both the republic and the empire, on the one hand, and by unprecedented crises of the republic and colonial legitimacy, on the other. Interwar imperialism produced qualitative and evaluative distinctions between different French colonies but I will focus on the more general conceptions of the empire as such that circulated through the discourse of Greater France.

JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY

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Laird BOSWELL, Franco-Alsatian Conflict and the Crisis of National Sentiment during the Phoney War, The Journal of Modern History, Volume 71, Number 3, September 1999, pp 522-584

Robert O. PAXTON, The Five Stages of Fascism, The Journal of Modern History, Volume 70, Number 1, March 1998, pp 1-23

Vicki CARON, The Antisemitic Revival in France in the 1930s: The Socioeconomic Dimension Reconsidered, The Journal of Modern History, Volume 70, Number 1, March 1998, pp 24-73

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

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John Oswald, Re-appropriating Europe: Albert Camus's wartime Europeanism, Modern & Contemporary France     Volume: 9 Number: 4     November 2001    Page: 483 -- 493

Abstract: The study of ideas of Europe in the works of Albert Camus is a relatively recent aspect of Camus scholarship, but one that has tended towards the teleological, reading Camus's stance on Europe as pioneering or at least anticipating modernday European integration. This article proposes a re-reading of Camus's Lettres à un ami allemand, of which the third letter (written in 1944) is one of the strongest expressions of Europeanism in the Camusian oeuvre. Unlike existing scholarship, it situates this text in the context of the various understandings of Europe of the resistance movements and the collaborators in Occupied France. Based on Higgins's understanding of resistance poetry as an effort to reappropriate language, and through comparison with Camus's hitherto largely ignored book review of works by Brice Parain, the article demonstrates how Camus's text constitutes an effort to reappropriate the discourse of Europe.

John Hellman, Memory, history and national identity in Vichy France, Modern & Contemporary France   February 2001   Volume: 9 Number: 1 Page: 37 -- 42

Abstract: Vichy France mobilised memory-managers to explain that the Revolution was over, to promote a deeper understanding of the French past and to help find a place in a European 'New Order' invigorated by the Germanic peoples. They demonstrated that a time of elites, or of 'knights', had returned. New people of old stock would displace the rabble risen in the Jacobin Empire and renew France by re-rooting her in her authentic past and collective memories. As Pétain toured the revered places of France's memory, the Republican rites and rituals were displaced by older symbols and ceremonies. Jewish and Masonic over-representation under the Third Republic encouraged a serene consensus for their exclusion. Vichy's search for a people's rooted, communitarian identity and heritage mustered prodigious, selfless, energies. The French wanted to be who they 'really were' and so vigorously sought themselves in their traditions and their past, with pernicious results.

Alastair Phillips, The camera goes down the streets. Dans les rues (Victor Trivas, 1933) and the Paris of the German émigrés, Modern & Contemporary France      Volume: 8 Number: 3, August 2000, Page: 325 -- 334

Abstract: Marcel Carné's important clarion call to 1930s French cinema 'to take the camera down the streets' was uniquely troubled by the arrival of waves of German émigré filmmakers in the French capital. This article uses one émigré film set in Paris, Dans les rues (Victor Trivas, 1933), as a case study to discuss both the place of the city and the place of the outsider in cinematic cultural representation during this decade. It argues that despite right-wing critical discourse linking Jewish culture with the ill effects of city life, a film like Dans les rues can be seen as an important turning point in the on-screen depiction of Paris. Trivas's film may have looked backwards to 19th-century convention, but, at the same time, it responded uniquely to Carné's concerns to produce an important, though largely neglected, early example of poetic realism.

Jackie Clarke, Imagined productive communities: industrial rationalisation and cultural crisis in 1930s France, Modern & Contemporary France      Volume: 8 Number: 3,  August 2000, Page: 345 -- 357

Abstract: This article discusses the French interwar movement in favour of the rationalisation of work and its ideas for a new industrial order. It argues that these ideas were shaped by anxieties about the social consequences of mass production and that a preoccupation with the (re-)creation of productive communities was central to the rationalisation project in France. Rather than embracing American-style mass production as the only model for modernisation, the French modernisers discussed here sought to map out a distinctive route: they sought ways in which goods could be produced on a mass scale, while workers were organised on a human scale, or even returned to the land. Such ambitions gesture just as much towards the passéisme of the Révolution nationale as to the model of Fordist America or the postwar transformation of France.

NATIONAL IDENTITIES

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Peter Carrier, 'National Reconciliation?' Mitterrand, Chirac and the Commemorations of Vichy 1992-95, National Identities, Volume: 2 Number: 2, July 2000, Page: 127 -- 144

PAST AND PRESENT

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Laura Lee Downs, Municipal Communism and the Politics of Childhood: Ivry-Sur-Seine 1925-1960, Past & Present, Volume 166, Issue 1: February 2000, pp. 205-241.

Pieter Lagrou , Victims of genocide and national memory: Belgium, France and the Netherlands 1945-1965 , Past & Present, February 1997, pp 181 - 222

VINGTIEME SIECLE

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Vincent Guigueno, Le visage de l'histoire. L'Armée des ombres et la figuration de la Résistance au cinéma, Vingtième Siècle, 72, October-December 2001, pp 79-89

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