Charlotte Robertson
La Bourse insoumise: Financial Policy, Policing, and Market Resistance to State Control in Bonapartist France Drawing on arguments of my book manuscript, this paper explores how th
Valerie Deacon
The Humanity of Resistance: French Assistance to Downed Allied Aircrews In 1944, an interallied commission was charged with recognizing the bravery of some 20,000 French civilians
Sam Kalman
From Vichy to Algiers and Back Again: The Algerian Extreme Right, the Organisation armée secrete, and Resistance to Decolonization There was a voluminous extreme Right in Algeria
Sean Kennedy
Resisting the Wartime Order: Policing Sex Work in Lyon, 1914-1918 Based on material from several archives, this paper explores the confrontation between sex workers and police in o
Brigitte Farrell
La plus grande richesse est la santé : l’impérialisme médical en Algérie, années 1920-1930 Based upon my ongoing doctoral research into colonial medicine in French Algeria i
Benjamin Poole
The Gastronomic Capital of the World We will discuss portions of his chapter, The Gastronomic Capital of the World; focusing especially on the twentieth century, when resistance to
Laura O’Brian
Temporary sites of resistance: the barricade and commemorating revolution in the modern city For those of us who work on Paris in the nineteenth century, perhaps the most obvious s
Amanda Vincent
Parisian Greenspace Resistance (But not really) In the decades following the Second World War, Paris’s municipal parks, gardens, and squares enjoyed a reputation as spaces of res
Audra Merfeld
Il faut vivre avec son époque’: Marcel Aymé’s Depictions of Wartime Paris As a longtime resident of Montmartre, author Marcel Aymé had a front-row seat from which to observe
Erin-Marie Legacey
Two Hundred Years of Resisting the Present in the Paris Catacombs I will discuss how the Catacombs have functioned as a space of reprieve in which visitors to the underground could