The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 25, 1992 | Copyright information

THE VICHY SYNDROME; HISTORY AND MEMORY IN FRANCE SINCE 1944. By Henry Rousso. Harvard; 384 pages; [Brit. pounds] 29.95 and $37.50

NO HISTORY is innocent, contemporary history least of all. Memory, myth and manipulation see to that. So Henry Rousso has set out to provide not just another narrative of les annees noires-the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom "French state" and the civil war-but a study of the way the Vichy episode has been perceived and perverted b...

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