Vichy, le grand fossé - article ; n°1 ; vol.5, pg 55-80

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1985 - Volume 5 - Numéro 1 - Pages 55-80
Vichy, the big split, Henry Rousso
The Vichy regime undoubtedly was the result of a specific crisis, the prisoner of a war contingency. However, the Marshal Pétain's regime purposely played on the old wounds which split the French, those of the 1930s as well as older ones, such as the Dreyfus affair or even that of 1789. It is very much the archetype of the Franco-French wars. More proof of that is to be found in the conflicts which it produced after 1945, at the time of the Cold War, under de Gaulle, and again at the present time.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.