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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Schwartz, Paula L.
Titre(s) : Today sardines are not for sale [Texte imprimé] : a street protest in occupied Paris / Paula Schwartz
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : ix, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Today Sardines Are Not For Sale is a microhistory of a single, emblematic event:
the demonstration on the rue de Buci, a food protest that took place on May 31, 1942
at a central market area in occupied Paris. It was a time of dire food scarcity, escalating
tensions between shoppers and merchants, an upsurge of urban guerrilla violence, and
relentless repression of dissent by the authorities. The French collaborationist government
at Vichy saw the demonstration as a crime against the State. For the German occupiers,
it was "terrorism." For the French Communist party activists who staged the event
and participated in it, it was an act of people's justice. What ultimately became
known as the "Buci affair" had tragic consequences for the demonstrators and far-reaching
ramifications for the underground communist resistance. How did a relatively obscure
incident become a short-lived cause célèbre? Why did it mobilize the French police,
the courts, and the German military authorities but fail to mobilize the public? How
did the party and party activists use gender to shape the event and perceptions of
it? This close-up of a single episode reveals the motivations of the committed women
and men who orchestrated it, and the visible but unseen moving parts of the "above-ground
underground." Today Sardines Are Not For Sale is the product of a privileged moment
when it was possible to confront written sources-newly accessible police and court
records--with the oral testimony of surviving participants"
Sujet(s) : Rationnement alimentaire -- France -- 1900-1945
Manifestations -- Paris (France) -- Rue de Buci -- 1900-1945
France -- 1940-1945 (Occupation allemande)
Paris (France) -- 1900-1945
Parti communiste français -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.533 60944361 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Résistance - France - Paris
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190681548. - ISBN 0190681543. - ISBN 9780190681562 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465929798
Notice n° :
FRBNF46592979
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The event -- ; Hunger and scarcity -- ; Protesting women, partisan men -- ; Acts of
war -- ; The teacher and the truant -- ; The economy of memory -- ; From sardines
to smoked salmon.
