France: Civil War and Liberation

di Philippe Buton
in Memoria e Ricerca n.s. 21 (2006), p. 101

Have France experienced a civil war during the Liberation? The answer, for a long time, was obvious as far as the historians community is concerned. Then, the historical debate has become more complex while the french memories of the second world war became less edulcorated and the time of new questions arose. In the last decade, historians began a new debate, combined with complementary researches, thar allowed a clearly more sharpened reply.