Remembering the Battle of Paris

Bibliographic Data

ID4008769
AuthorsJoshua Cole (0000-0002-4859-1298, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume21
Issue3
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Politics Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-6370 • E-ISSN: 1558-5271
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/153763703782370251
OpenAlexW2043059780
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Kader was there on 17 October 1961—at the Madeleine metro station at about 6:30 in the evening. He was also there at the Palais des Sports three days after the demonstration, and for 33 days at the police department’s Identification Center at Vincennes. In 1981, when Kader gave this testimony to Libération, he was still “there”—in France—living in the same worker’s dormitory that had been his home in 1961. After being held in a camp in Algeria, he had returned to the country where he felt humiliated and where he had been tortured, because his family had been killed and his political allies exiled. He was not bitter. “We were at war.” Who is this “we”

Ancient history · Art · Battle · Evening · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law

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