Beschreibung
Remarkable archive of approximately 50 individual items, including original tracts, journal issues, bulletins, and typed transcriptions made in London of clandestine French documents, related to the French Resistance during World War II. Various sizes and formats. Handling wear, some toning and foxing, light chipping and edgewear, overall very good. Various places of publication, circa 1940-1944. The resistance in France during World War II involved a collection of groups that fought against the Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime in France. Small, often rural, groups of men and women conducted guerrilla warfare, published underground newspapers, attacked power grids and transportation facilities, provided intelligence information, and helped with escape networks for Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. Members of the Resistance included academics, students, aristocrats, liberals, anarchists, communists, fascists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims, with an estimated one to three percent of the total population aligning with the Resistance. They played a huge role in helping the advancement of Allied forces through France after the invasion of Normandy, and formed the French Forces of the Interior (FFI), which counted around 400,000 members by October 1944. This remarkable collection of journals, bulletins, documents, and original tracts provides an invaluable insight into the role and breadth of the French Resistance movement. Some of the items in this archive were published normally, some were distributed clandestinely, and many are not found in any libraries outside of France. The collection includes: - L'Action des Metallos, special number, undated [Autumn 1940], double-sided mimeographed sheet directed toward the activism of Parisian metalworkers. - Combat, Organe du mouvement de libération française, "Supplément local pour Lyon" No. 1 (décembre 1942), double-sided sheet, addressed to the people of Lyon. - Le Courrier de l'Air, "Apporté par vos amis de la R.A.F., Distribué par les patriotes français", No. 12 (1942), 4 pp., small booklet, illustrated from photographs. - France d'Abord, Organe d'information, de liasion et de combat des detachments de Francs-Tireurs et Partisans qui forment sur le sol de la patrie, l'avant-garde de la France combattante, unnumbered, double-sided mimeographed sheet, issued by the FTP, containing FTP communiqués nos. 38 and 39 from September 1943. - L'Humanité, Organe central du Parti Communiste Français, 8 total issues, nos. 74, 86, 90, 91, 240, 252, 258, and 261, the first four dating from 2 septembre 1940 through 8 décembre 1940, the latter four dating from 15 août 1943 through 1 décembre 1943, double-sided sheets, the first few mimeographed, (with duplicate of first issue). - Liberation, Organe du Mouvement Libération Nationale, No. 53 (1 août 1944), double-sided sheet. - La Marseillaise, Hebdomadaire du Mouvement de Libération Nationale, Région Sud-Est, No. 6 (juillet 1944), double-sided sheet. - Resistance: Le Nouveau Journal de Paris, 2me Année, No. 15 (17 juillet 1943), 4 pp. - Le Reveil des Commerçants et des Artisans, Orange des commerçants et artisans du Parti communiste français, No. 3 (novembre-décembre 1943), double-sided sheet. - Tandis que j'agonise, Bulletin politique et littéraire de la R.N.N./Résistance Française, three double-sided mimeographed issues: No. 4 (septembre 1943), No. 5 (octobre 1943), and supplement No. 12bis (undated, circa early 1944). - La Vie du Parti, unnumbered issue from Septembre 1943, twelve mimeographed pages. - La Vie Ouvriere, six total issues, unnumbered, dated 21 septembre 1940 ("Edition Parisienne"), 31 octobre 1940, 1 avril 1943, 7 juin 1943, 7 août 1943, and 1 septembre 1943, each a single double-sided sheet, the two 1940 issues and the August 1943 issue mimeographed. - La Voix de la Liberation, Organe Régional des Comités de Libération, Région du Sud-Est, unnumbered issue dated 14 juillet 1944, single double-sided sheet. - La Vo.
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