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Article: The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars.
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- History: Review of New Books
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- March 22, 1998
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Rearick, Charles The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars New Haven: Yale University Press 333 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-06433-0 Publication Date: July 1997
A dozen years ago, Charles Rearick deftly described French culture in The Pleasures of the Belle Epoque (Yale University Press, 1985), ending his study on the eve of World War I. Now, he takes his examination of French popular culture through those terrible years, through the somewhat less terrible two decades of reconstruction and depression that followed, and finally through the most terrible years of all, World War II and Vichy. Rearick's focus is resolutely on the culture of the ...