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The shameful peace : how French artists and intellectuals survived the Nazi occupation / Frederic Spotts.

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The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained--including Gide and Céline, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen, and Cocteau and Gabin--responded in various...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Spotts, Frederic (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
War and civilization > France > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
War and civilization > History > 20th century.
Intellectual life
War and civilization
War and literature
France
1900-1999
Art
History
Table of Contents:
  • The judgement of Paris
  • Good-bye to all that
  • Oh, what a lovely war!
  • 'I get a kick out of you'
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • Songs without words
  • Artful dodgers
  • Enigma variations
  • Faiblesse oblige
  • Human, all too human.

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