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Vichy : An Ever-present Past Contemporary French Culture and Society
author
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Conan, Eric.; Rousso, Henry
publisher
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University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin
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0874517958
print isbn13
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9780874517958
ebook isbn13
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9780585256962
language
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English
subject
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects, Vichy (France)--Politics and government, Politicians--France--Attitudes, War crime trials--France, War crime trials--France.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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DC397.C5913 1998eb
ddc
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944.081/6
subject
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France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects, Vichy (France)--Politics and government, Politicians--France--Attitudes, War crime trials--France, War crime trials--France.
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Vichy
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Contemporary French Culture and Society
edited by Richard J. Golsan, Mary Jean Green, and Lynn A. Higgins
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Vichy
An Ever-Present Past
ric Conan and Henry Rousso
Translated and Annotated by Nathan Bracher
Foreword by Robert O. Paxton
Page iv
Dartmouth College
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
1998 by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
The original edition of this book was published by Librarie Arthme Fayard in 1994. The afterword to the 1996 Editions Gallimard "Folio Histoire" edition has been integrated into the English-language version of the text.
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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CIP data appear at the end of the book
This work, published under the auspices of the program for publications, benefits from the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
Cet ouvrage publi dans le cadre du programme d'aide la publication bnficie du soutien du Ministre des Affaires trangres du Service Culturel de l'Ambassade de France represente aux Etats-Unis.
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Our inheritance has not been preceded by any will. RENE CHAR
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Contents
Foreword
Robert O. Paxton
ix
Preface to the American Edition
xv
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction: Memory All Bent Out of Shape
1
1. Vl' d'Hiv': Or the Impossible Commemoration
16
2. The Archives: They Hide Everything, They Tell Us Nothing
46
3. The Touvier Trial: Justice, Memory, and History
74
4. The Mitterrand Generation
124
5. The Resisters, Our Guilty Conscience
156
6. So What Is the Teacher Up To?
175
7. The Future of an Obsession
197
Appendix: A Chronology of the Remembrance of World War II, 19901997
213
Notes
233
Bibliography
275
Index of Names
285
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Foreword
Robert O. Paxton
Ten years ago, Henry Rousso produced a landmark book about how the French remember their grim experience of World War II: The Vichy Syndrome.1 He mapped out definitively the phases in which successive French memories of this painful past have been constructed. First, at the moment of Liberation, the bitter wounds of defeat and Nazi occupation could not be healed by a normal collective mourning. Opinions differed too radically about which heroes could be legitimately celebrated: Was it those who had rashly fought on, with de Gaulle and the Resistance, or those who had sought some prudent accommodation with the apparently victorious Nazis, alongside Marshall Ptain and his French State at Vichy? Nor was there agreement about which of the many dead could legitimately be mourned: the soldiers who had lost the war in 1940, the resisters hunted down by the Vichy police or the Gestapo, the collaborators summarily executed in the heat of Liberation, the victims of Allied bombings, the anti-Communist volunteers who died in Nazi uniform on the Russian front, or the Free French soldiers who arrived in 1944 as part of the Allied liberation armies.
Despite this "failed mourning," as Rousso calls it, by the early 1950s a kind of national unity had been achieved around a useful fiction. The Gaullists and Communists who had triumphed at the Liberation succeeded, independently but in tacit complicity, in imposing a version of history according to which France had resisted almost unanimously, from the beginning. In this perspective, Vichy had been limited to a marginal handful of traitors. This version's "invented honor" was generally accepted for twenty years. Vichy aroused no serious debate; collaboration was, Rousso says, a "repressed memory."
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