The Evacuation of Children inside Wartime France

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ID21363934
AuthorsLuke Dodd (0000-0001-8198-3384, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue2
Pages159-173
Publication date2020-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNottingham French Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0029-4586 • E-ISSN: 2047-7236
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/nfs.2020.0282
OpenAlexW3034894726
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

This article explores the evacuation of children from the Paris region to the rural Creuse département, prompted by problems with the capital's food supply and increasingly heavy Allied air raids from 1943. It combines archival material and oral narratives, using the case studies of two individuals (Françoise and Christian) to suggest first, a latent archival bias towards extremes of positive and negative experience, and second, the ways oral history narratives can provide nuance and texture to how we understand the past, replicating more faithfully the equivocal nature of everyday life. After an outline of the historical context of evacuation, three aspects of the evacuee-host experience are considered: the decision to accept an evacuee, the material conditions in which the child was accommodated, and the longer-term relationships forged through evacuation. It is both an analysis of some of the historical dimensions of children's evacuation and a methodological exploration of oral and written data

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture) · Capital city · Context (archaeology) · Economic geography · Everyday life · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Sociology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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