Resistance heroism and the end of empire : the life and times of Madeleine Riffaud /
"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contrib...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in modern European history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Portrait of a rebel
- Dramatis personae
- Defining features: Riffaud and the Résistance
- Vietnam: a love story
- Algeria and France: a crime passionnel
- Poetry as a weapon of war
- Edme Liron: the ancestral portrait
- The portrait revisited
- Rainer or Riffaud?