DICTIONNAIRE DE L’EPURATION DES GENS DE LETTRES

OXFORD ACADEMIC

Dictionnaire de l’épuration des gens de lettres

JACQUES BONCOMPAIN;

préface de HENRI-CHRISTIAN GIRAUD.

Dictionnaire de l’épuration des gens de lettres 1939–1949: ‘Mort aux confrères!’

Par Jacques Boncompain; préface de Henri-Christian Giraud. (Histoire du livre et des bibliothèques, 14.)

Paris, Honoré Champion, 2016, 799 pp.

Martyn Cornick

French Studies, knx229, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knx229

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The purge of intellectuals in post-Liberation France has, over the years, generated a considerable literature, the latest among which is Jeanyves Guérin’s Les Listes noires de 1944: pour une histoire littéraire de l’épuration (Paris: Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2016; see French Studies, 71 (2017), 295–96). The volume under review here is of a quite different order, however, because of the vast scope of the research on which it is founded. Jacques Boncompain, former Director of the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), has published a number of works on the relationship between writers and their social and institutional context. This book is much more encyclopaedic than its title suggests, and should become an essential reference for those working on the cultural history of the…

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