The Second World War Archives of the Institut Français du Royaume Uni, London

Authors

  • Charlotte Faucher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v6i3.1431

Abstract

London was the first capital city of Free France, the French external resistance movement led by Charles de Gaulle. This city also hosted a dynamic French community and since 1910 a French Institute. This piece reviews the Second World War archives held at the French Institute, with a focus on the documents of its then director, Denis Saurat, who was one of the first London French to rally to de Gaulle.  However, by 1942 Saurat had become a leading anti-Gaullist and the French Institute archives allow scholars to add nuance to the history of Free France and wartime Britain.

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Published

2020-11-10

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Research Notes