Ludivine Broch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1084343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludivine Broch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludivine |
| FAMILY NAME | Broch |
| SIGNATURE | BROCH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9673-4919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Diplomacy of Gratitude: Transatlantic Emotional Ties in the Twentieth Century
This introductory article situates the study of gratitude within the historiography on emotions and transatlantic relations, particularly in relation to the affective turn in the humanities and social sciences. It also sets out the common goals of the articles: inviting historians to take gratitude seriously by defining its relationship to ongoing work in memory, humanitarian and international studies. By identifying a diplomacy of gratitude, it …
Blogging (French) history: Conversations and reflections amongst historians
In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of blog posts with many thousands of readers, covering teaching and researching French history, but also the lives and experiences of the historians involved in doing both things. To mark its tenth anniversary in December 2024, the Institute of Historical Research’s Modern French History Seminar hosted a rou…
The French Resistance and Its Legacy
Emotional Relations in the Early Cold War: Power, Politics and the French Gratitude Train to Americans, 1948–1949
This article argues that practices of gratitude were central to Franco-American relations in the early Cold War. Through the story of the French Gratitude Train to the American People in 1948–1949, it brings the diplomacy of gratitude to the heart of the post-war years, reflecting on the complicated relations between the two countries and on the ability of emotional performances of gratitude to shape as well as nuance post-1945 dynamics. Rather t…
Tal Bruttmann, Laurent Joly et Annette Wieviorka (dir.), Qu’est-ce qu’un déporté ? Histoire et mémoires des déportations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2008, 416 p
La question posée dans le titre laisse percevoir que cet ouvrage est le fruit d’un travail particulièrement ambitieux. Depuis 1944, des historiens, des témoins, des législateurs tentent de comprendre ce que fut la déportation pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et tous cherchent à définir « le déporté ». Toutefois, cet ouvrage ne pourra apporter une réponse définitive. Dès le premier chapitre, Tal Bruttmann est très clair : « le déporté en tant qu…
The 52,000 gifts of the Gratitude Train: Objects, emotions and Franco–American relations after the Second World War
The Gratitude Train was sent from France to America in 1949. Conceived as a ‘thank you’ for American help during and after the world wars, it contained 52,000 personal objects chosen and donated by French people who wanted to express their gratitude to Americans. The objects were divided between forty-nine boxcars, and each state received one of these boxcars containing approximately 1000 objects. What where these objects? Who sent them? Why have…
Moving objects: French history and the study of material culture
What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle used these objects as a kind of shorthand, as symbols for the greater whole, rather than subjects of sustained analysis and reflection. This special issue puts the analysis of objects at the heart of French history, to ask what…
James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
Journal Article James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. Get access James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. Paper $18.00. Ludivine Broch Ludivine Broch University of Westminster, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
Vichy France and Everyday Life Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
The historiography of Vichy France has known a fractured but rich development over the years. From discussions of resistance in the immediate post-war to studies of collaboration in the 1970s and 1980s, the historiography triggered intense, emotional and very public debates in France and beyond. This was all the more true as studies of antisemitism and Jewish persecution under Vichy revealed the French state’s complicity in genocide. These debate…
Colonial Subjects and Citizens in the French Internal Resistance, 1940-1944
In recent decades historians have done a lot to reveal the social and political diversity of the people who participated in the French Resistance. But little has been said about non-white resisters who were among the 200,000 men and women from the colonies living in the French metropole during the Occupation. This article shows that many of them were entangled in the Resistance as early as the summer of 1940 and that they became involved in the m…
The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany, by Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn
There exists a rich literature on wartime industrial and business history. Some studies focus on the workers who were part of massive transnational labour programmes, while others question the extent of industrial collaboration with the Nazis. In the 1990s, much of this literature focused on the demonisation of businesses which collaborated with the Nazis, and the moral and ethical questions surrounding wartime economic profit were fully exposed.…
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War
Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen – the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole…
French Railway Workers and the Question of Rescue During the Holocaust
Only one French railway worker has been honoured as a Righteous Amongst the Nations for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. But to what extent can one reduce the history of railwaymen, rescue and the deportations in Vichy France to this single incident? This article reveals the more complicated history of the Jewish but also non-Jewish deportation trains, and how it intersected with the history of the cheminots and of rescue operations between 19…
Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940–1945, by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-EarpProtest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands, by Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders and …
There are innumerable books about the Nazi Occupation of Europe between 1939 and 1945, yet, within that ocean of historiography, very few examine the experiences of the men and women who lived in the Channel Islands. Two publications have recently changed this: a co-authored volume by Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders and Louise Willmot focuses on the occupation of the Channel Islands in general, and a monograph by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp takes a closer …
France in an Era of Global War, 1914–1945
In France in an Era of Global War, scholars re-examine experiences of French politics, occupation, empire and entanglements with the Anglophone world between 1914 and 1945. In doing so, they question
The Jews of France Today: Identity and values
Professionalism in the Final Solution: French Railway Workers and the Jewish Deportations, 1942–4
Why did railway workers never sabotage the deportation trains? This article examines the role of French railway workers in the Holocaust by historicising the concept of railway professionalism. It argues that the actions and behaviour of French railwaymen, whether blue-collar, white-collar or Jewish, were rooted in long-standing professional identities and values which were difficult to shift, even during the occupation. So whereas the profession…
Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943–August 1944
Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Sarah Gensburger (Jonathan Hensher, Trans.), Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2011, 180 pp, £40.00, 978 08574 51392 For a long time, a simple plaque near the Austerlitz train station was
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis
Journal Article The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis Get access The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis.By Matthew Cobb. Simon and Schuster, 2009. 320 pp. £17.99/£8.99 ISBN: 978 1847371232. Ludivine Broch Ludivine Broch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 127–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crr007 Published: 27 January 2011
Colonial Subjects and Citizens in the French Internal Resistance, 1940-1944
In recent decades historians have done a lot to reveal the social and political diversity of the people who participated in the French Resistance. But little has been said about non-white resisters who were among the 200,000 men and women from the colonies living in the French metropole during the Occupation. This article shows that many of them were entangled in the Resistance as early as the summer of 1940 and that they became involved in the m…
French Railway Workers and the Question of Rescue During the Holocaust
Only one French railway worker has been honoured as a Righteous Amongst the Nations for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. But to what extent can one reduce the history of railwaymen, rescue and the deportations in Vichy France to this single incident? This article reveals the more complicated history of the Jewish but also non-Jewish deportation trains, and how it intersected with the history of the cheminots and of rescue operations between 19…
Professionalism in the Final Solution: French Railway Workers and the Jewish Deportations, 1942–4
Why did railway workers never sabotage the deportation trains? This article examines the role of French railway workers in the Holocaust by historicising the concept of railway professionalism. It argues that the actions and behaviour of French railwaymen, whether blue-collar, white-collar or Jewish, were rooted in long-standing professional identities and values which were difficult to shift, even during the occupation. So whereas the profession…
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis
Journal Article The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis Get access The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis.By Matthew Cobb. Simon and Schuster, 2009. 320 pp. £17.99/£8.99 ISBN: 978 1847371232. Ludivine Broch Ludivine Broch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 127–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crr007 Published: 27 January 2011
My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943–August 1944
Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Sarah Gensburger (Jonathan Hensher, Trans.), Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2011, 180 pp, £40.00, 978 08574 51392 For a long time, a simple plaque near the Austerlitz train station was
France in an Era of Global War, 1914–1945
In France in an Era of Global War, scholars re-examine experiences of French politics, occupation, empire and entanglements with the Anglophone world between 1914 and 1945. In doing so, they question
The Jews of France Today: Identity and values
Professionalism in the Final Solution: French Railway Workers and the Jewish Deportations, 1942–4
Why did railway workers never sabotage the deportation trains? This article examines the role of French railway workers in the Holocaust by historicising the concept of railway professionalism. It argues that the actions and behaviour of French railwaymen, whether blue-collar, white-collar or Jewish, were rooted in long-standing professional identities and values which were difficult to shift, even during the occupation. So whereas the profession…
Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
French Railway Workers and the Question of Rescue During the Holocaust
Only one French railway worker has been honoured as a Righteous Amongst the Nations for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. But to what extent can one reduce the history of railwaymen, rescue and the deportations in Vichy France to this single incident? This article reveals the more complicated history of the Jewish but also non-Jewish deportation trains, and how it intersected with the history of the cheminots and of rescue operations between 19…
Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940–1945, by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-EarpProtest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands, by Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders and …
There are innumerable books about the Nazi Occupation of Europe between 1939 and 1945, yet, within that ocean of historiography, very few examine the experiences of the men and women who lived in the Channel Islands. Two publications have recently changed this: a co-authored volume by Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders and Louise Willmot focuses on the occupation of the Channel Islands in general, and a monograph by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp takes a closer …
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War
Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen – the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole…
The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II: Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany, by Talbot Imlay and Martin Horn
There exists a rich literature on wartime industrial and business history. Some studies focus on the workers who were part of massive transnational labour programmes, while others question the extent of industrial collaboration with the Nazis. In the 1990s, much of this literature focused on the demonisation of businesses which collaborated with the Nazis, and the moral and ethical questions surrounding wartime economic profit were fully exposed.…
Vichy France and Everyday Life Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
The historiography of Vichy France has known a fractured but rich development over the years. From discussions of resistance in the immediate post-war to studies of collaboration in the 1970s and 1980s, the historiography triggered intense, emotional and very public debates in France and beyond. This was all the more true as studies of antisemitism and Jewish persecution under Vichy revealed the French state’s complicity in genocide. These debate…
Colonial Subjects and Citizens in the French Internal Resistance, 1940-1944
In recent decades historians have done a lot to reveal the social and political diversity of the people who participated in the French Resistance. But little has been said about non-white resisters who were among the 200,000 men and women from the colonies living in the French metropole during the Occupation. This article shows that many of them were entangled in the Resistance as early as the summer of 1940 and that they became involved in the m…
The 52,000 gifts of the Gratitude Train: Objects, emotions and Franco–American relations after the Second World War
The Gratitude Train was sent from France to America in 1949. Conceived as a ‘thank you’ for American help during and after the world wars, it contained 52,000 personal objects chosen and donated by French people who wanted to express their gratitude to Americans. The objects were divided between forty-nine boxcars, and each state received one of these boxcars containing approximately 1000 objects. What where these objects? Who sent them? Why have…
Moving objects: French history and the study of material culture
What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle used these objects as a kind of shorthand, as symbols for the greater whole, rather than subjects of sustained analysis and reflection. This special issue puts the analysis of objects at the heart of French history, to ask what…
James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
Journal Article James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. Get access James McAuley. The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. Paper $18.00. Ludivine Broch Ludivine Broch University of Westminster, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
Tal Bruttmann, Laurent Joly et Annette Wieviorka (dir.), Qu’est-ce qu’un déporté ? Histoire et mémoires des déportations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale: Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2008, 416 p
La question posée dans le titre laisse percevoir que cet ouvrage est le fruit d’un travail particulièrement ambitieux. Depuis 1944, des historiens, des témoins, des législateurs tentent de comprendre ce que fut la déportation pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et tous cherchent à définir « le déporté ». Toutefois, cet ouvrage ne pourra apporter une réponse définitive. Dès le premier chapitre, Tal Bruttmann est très clair : « le déporté en tant qu…
Blogging (French) history: Conversations and reflections amongst historians
In 2014, the French History Network Blog was launched with the aim of ‘connecting people and ideas’. Ten years later, it has shared hundreds of blog posts with many thousands of readers, covering teaching and researching French history, but also the lives and experiences of the historians involved in doing both things. To mark its tenth anniversary in December 2024, the Institute of Historical Research’s Modern French History Seminar hosted a rou…
The French Resistance and Its Legacy
Emotional Relations in the Early Cold War: Power, Politics and the French Gratitude Train to Americans, 1948–1949
This article argues that practices of gratitude were central to Franco-American relations in the early Cold War. Through the story of the French Gratitude Train to the American People in 1948–1949, it brings the diplomacy of gratitude to the heart of the post-war years, reflecting on the complicated relations between the two countries and on the ability of emotional performances of gratitude to shape as well as nuance post-1945 dynamics. Rather t…
The Diplomacy of Gratitude: Transatlantic Emotional Ties in the Twentieth Century
This introductory article situates the study of gratitude within the historiography on emotions and transatlantic relations, particularly in relation to the affective turn in the humanities and social sciences. It also sets out the common goals of the articles: inviting historians to take gratitude seriously by defining its relationship to ongoing work in memory, humanitarian and international studies. By identifying a diplomacy of gratitude, it …
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