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Writing History of the Resistance in France: Beyond the Mystification and Forgetting(1946-2013)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2016, (34), pp.113~151
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Yong-Woo Lee 1

1동덕여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article attempts to examine the historiography of the Resistance in France since 1945. In contrast with memoirs whose publication had increased rapidly and dropped off sharply in several years after 1944, and afterwards released steadily for more than half a century, history books were published much more over time. The historiography of the Resistance in France can be divided into two parts; up to 1980, during which it was controlled by the Committee of History of the Second World War(CHDGM), an Office of Premier-affiliated organization, and in the next phase, the committee was replaced by the Institute of History of the Present Times(IHTP), a non-governmental organization. In the first phase, the witnesses/ historians who had joined resistance movement played a prominent role, and in the second, the former generation continued to control the historiography into the 1990s in spite of appearance of the new and diversified topics. And even today, it is a challenging task for the historians of the Resistance to overcome a sort of double jeopardy of mystification and forgetting.

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