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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Hellman |
ISBN: | 0853237425 9780853237426 0773516905 9780773516908 0773509739 9780773509733 |
OCLC Number: | 37387151 |
Description: | xiv, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Freench Catholic intellectuals and the ideological origins of the Vichy regime -- Beginnings -- Beuve-Méry, the research department, and the knightly order -- The Uriage experience -- Uriage influence : Jeunesse ... France. marche, and the regional schools -- The Uriage network, 1941 : the Équipe Nationale, économie et humanisme, the scouts and compagnons -- The struggle for youth -- Uriage under attack (March 1942-January 1943) -- Exile from the castle, the order, and the flying squads -- De Gaulle, the network, and the liberation -- Epilogue to the first edition -- Epilogue to the second edition: Wounding memories : Mitterand, Moulin, Touvier, and the divine half-lie of resistance. |
Responsibility: | John Hellman. |
Abstract:
This work describes the founding, operation, transformation, and demise of the Ecole Nationale des Cadres, details the institution's ideological and political struggles with other segments of French society, and deals with the remarkable rise of Uriage ideas and alumni in postwar France.
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"Hellman's book is thorough, fully documented, readable ... It is surely the best study of the Ecole des Cadres that exists, marked by sure knowledge and an excellent propensity for quoting illuminating pieces of evidence to illustrate the propositions being made ... His study is a significant contribution in the field of contemporary French history." John C. Cairns, Department of History, University of Toronto. Read more...
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