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The history of the French resistance began to be written as early as April 1944, when Jean-Jacques and Roland published in Algiers a brief, 144-page narrative entitled La Résistance française. 1 Jean-Jacques was the nom de guerre of Jean-Jacques Soudeille, one of the founders of Franc-Tireur 2 and a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly (Assemblée Consultative Provisoire). 3 'Roland' was a former chief of armed groups in southern France, whom I have not been able to identify according to his surname. The following year the prominent resister and history teacher Lucie Aubrac penned a short synthesis in a collection proudly entitled '"Mises au point" (Clarification): The Resistance. Birth and Organization'. 4 Here she painted a general picture, which despite a few inevitable inaccuracies came across as both authentic and inspiring. At the end of January 1946 two editions of Notes documentaires et études were published under the aegis of the Ministry of Information as A First Step Towards a History of the French Resistance (Esquisse d'une histoire de la Résistance française). 5 This studyhighly synthetic and realised without access to any written archiveswas astonishingly precise for the time. Many publications on the resistance were to follow, totalling almost 4,500 between 1946 and 2001. Surprisinglyconsidering this vast numberan overview of the full meaning of the term remains to be written. Beginning in 1950 with Henri Michel's Histoire de la Résistance in the well-known What do I know? (Que sais-je?) collection, 6 there have been several rigorous and impressive overviews. These include Julian Jackson's France: The Dark Years, which covers the various aspects of the entire period; 7 Olivier Wieviorka's Histoire de la Résistance, 1940-1945; 8 and Robert Gildea's Fighters in the Shadows. 9 Yet none of these encompasses the whole picture. They have dealt mainly with the organised resistance (movements, networks, maquis), and the
The history of the French resistance began to be written as early as April 1944, when Jean-Jacques and Roland published in Algiers a brief, 144-page narrative entitled La Résistance française. 1 Jean-Jacques was the nom de guerre of Jean-Jacques Soudeille, one of the founders of Franc-Tireur 2 and a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly (Assemblée Consultative Provisoire). 3 'Roland' was a former chief of armed groups in southern France, whom I have not been able to identify according to his surname. The following year the prominent resister and history teacher Lucie Aubrac penned a short synthesis in a collection proudly entitled '"Mises au point" (Clarification): The Resistance. Birth and Organization'. 4 Here she painted a general picture, which despite a few inevitable inaccuracies came across as both authentic and inspiring. At the end of January 1946 two editions of Notes documentaires et études were published under the aegis of the Ministry of Information as A First Step Towards a History of the French Resistance (Esquisse d'une histoire de la Résistance française). 5 This studyhighly synthetic and realised without access to any written archiveswas astonishingly precise for the time. Many publications on the resistance were to follow, totalling almost 4,500 between 1946 and 2001. Surprisinglyconsidering this vast numberan overview of the full meaning of the term remains to be written. Beginning in 1950 with Henri Michel's Histoire de la Résistance in the well-known What do I know? (Que sais-je?) collection, 6 there have been several rigorous and impressive overviews. These include Julian Jackson's France: The Dark Years, which covers the various aspects of the entire period; 7 Olivier Wieviorka's Histoire de la Résistance, 1940-1945; 8 and Robert Gildea's Fighters in the Shadows. 9 Yet none of these encompasses the whole picture. They have dealt mainly with the organised resistance (movements, networks, maquis), and the
Début du XX e siècle, une époque où « tout peut devenir spectacle » ..
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