Response to Robert Fassolette and Mark Rylance

Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Keith Rathbone, ‘Another look at the death of Rugby League in Vichy France’, Sport in History 43, no. 1 (2023): 55–80.2 See for example, the very funny ‘Treize et quinze’, Match, February 5, 1935.3 Henry Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy: 1944–1980 (Paris: Seuil, 1987), passim.4 Keith Rathbone, Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, Agency and Everyday Life (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).5 For a longer discussion on the debate between a jeunesse unique and an ecumenical physical cultural geography, see Daniel Lee, Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pg 48–53.6 See for example, Memorial de la Shoah, CCXXXVIII-37_003 ‘Lettres entre Jehan Kuntz et CCEGS’ (7 April 1941 and 9 June 1941).7 AN 44F2 ‘Projet d'Organisation de l'Éducation physique et sportive dans l'Enseignements’.8 See an even longer discussion: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 152–153.9 Keith Rathbone, ‘Athletes for France or Athletes for the Church: Conflict between Sports Officials and Catholic Sportsmen during the Vichy Regime (1940–1944)’, French History 33, no. 1 (2019): 88–109

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