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Open research questions in French Historical and Cultural Studies

25 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,903 French Historical and Cultural Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The articles he published between 1940 and 1944 in La France libre from London have previously been studied in a fragmented manner, but they have not yet been analyzed as a whole.

    Raymond Aron’s War: A ‘History of the Present’ (1940–1944) · 2022 · DOI

  • Some anonymous sailor or sailors wrote the latter during the incident that interests Perry, the understudied mutinies among the French Black Sea fleet in 1919.

    <i>Mutinous Memories: A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919</i> by Matt Perry · 2021 · DOI

  • Examination of understudied media and archival sources indicates that the ideational and discursive underpinnings of the midcentury French-Israeli alliance had survived the official French-Israeli rupture on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War and continued to shape discourse and action into the 1970s.

    The James Bond of Cherbourg · 2017 · DOI

  • The originality and lasting appeal of Burch and Sellier’s approach thus derive from the choice of an under-studied section of French cinema history as much as from the in-depth analysis of the relationship between film and society across a vast array of mainstream, high-quality productions alongside unsuccessful or marginal productions.

    The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 · 2015 · DOI

  • The assassination of the King of Yugoslavia, Alexander Ist by Croatian terrorists during a state visit to Marseilles on 9 October 1934 is commemorated by a modest plaque on the Canebière and a little known monument outside the Préfecture.

    Memory and Forgetting on the National Periphery: Marseilles and the Regicide of 1934 · 2010 · DOI

  • Evidence comes, for example, from criticisms of the politics of cultural assimilation in his essays in L'étudiant noir and Cahier d'un retour au pays natal in the first period to poems that directly challenged the literary formalism promoted by the French Communist Party in the second period, and a synthesis of the literary and the political in a little known poem about an murdered activist in New Caledonia.

    Is There Unity in the Writings of Aimé Césaire? · 2010 · DOI

  • The locus classicus of the widespread belief in the danger of counter-revolution from the right is Kerensky's reply to Lenin's open challenge at the First Congress of Soviets: How did 1792 end in France? It ended in the fall of the republic and the rise of a dictator.

    1917: The tyranny of Paris over Petrograd · 1968 · DOI

  • 63 No one objected to this rationalization, but vigour and purposefulness were lacking and hardly anything of this project was implemented.

    The allies and Russia in the light of French archives (7 November 1917—15 March 1918) · 1964 · DOI

  • Furthermore, his theoretical interpretations—formulated with limited knowledge, resources, and next to no hindsight—prefigured well-known theories by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simon Epstein.

    Raymond Aron’s Sociology of Collaborators, 1940–1944 · 2024 · DOI

  • This article examines soldiers’ experiences at the University of Montpellier, relying particularly on personal reminiscences and student publications to vividly portray the experiences of soldier-scholars in this understudied aspect of the post-war era.

    The American Expeditionary Forces Student Detachments in France in 1919: Soldier-Scholars at the University of Montpellier · 2024 · DOI

  • Today, the story of the Polish codebreakers and the French secret service remains very little known in France, although their work proved decisive in the Allied victory during the Second World War.

    Enigma, les décrypteurs polonais et les services secrets français, 1932–1945 · 2019 · DOI

  • In addition to this, several authors look at the different representations (or invisibility) of disability, class differences and class consciousness and colonial troops, thus bringing these crucial and too often understudied or neglected issues to the foreground.

    French Cinema and the Great War. Remembrance and Representation · 2019 · DOI

  • Therefore, this article also attempts to analyse the Polish-French relations via diverse sources (reports, private letters) created in the Paris office, frequently revealing the little known background of momentous events or of those yet unexplored.

    Officer Assigned to the Key Diplomatic Post – the Beginnings of Colonel Wojciech Fyda’s Activity as Military Attaché in Paris and in Brussels · 2018 · DOI

  • Contemporary French fictional accounts of the Spanish Civil War are scarce and, besides the dominant case of Malraux’s L’Espoir, largely restricted to the far right and warnings against Republican ‘disorder’.

    ‘Qui sont ces pédants qui se permettent ainsi de <i>trancher</i> ?’ · 2017 · DOI

  • But Heinrich Heine’s long and final exile in Paris was not characterized by the desire to return home and is, therefore, unusual in the history of German exile.

    París y el exilio de Heinrich Heine · 2012 · DOI

  • The history of the rescue of the Jews in France should be studied through an integrated perspective that leads to thinking about the Resistance as a whole, organized and unorganized, Jewish and non-Jewish.

    Rescue of the Jews and the Resistance in France: From History to Historiography · 2012 · DOI

  • But one, FIDO (Roger Grosjean), 1 is little known and receives hardly any mention in the literature on double agents.

    FIDO: French Pilot and Security Service Double Agent<i>Malgré Lui</i> · 2010 · DOI

  • Researchers unfamiliar with the entire corpus of Césaire's writings question the connection between his literary works and his other texts, especially those of a political nature, many of which are little known.

    Is There Unity in the Writings of Aimé Césaire? · 2010 · DOI

  • Nevertheless, it needs to be studied more closely, as it attempted to adjust the politics of confrontation, too often seen as the root of all French political argument in the early twentieth century.

    After the Affair: The Congres de la Jeunesse and Intellectual Reconciliation in 1900 · 2009 · DOI

  • Over the past generation France has addressed the Vichy years head on, and the nation has begun to assess the legacy of the colonial enterprise, notably in Algeria, with mixed results.

    Should France be Ashamed of its History? Coming to Terms with the Past in France and its Eastern Borderlands<sup>1</sup> · 2008 · DOI

  • Scholarship in the field has tended to centre on whether or not the movement can be classified as fascist, and this debate (and lack of consensus) has somewhat hindered analysis of the movement itself.

    Reconciling France Against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Francais, 1927-1945 · 2008 · DOI

  • In brief, French fascism has been described as either limited to a few insignificant fringe groups or, if more pervasive than that, primarily the work of non-conformist left-wing intellectuals.

    French Fascism and the Croix de Feu: A Dissenting Interpretation · 1991 · DOI

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