Paris 1940-1944The daily routine
of Parisians
under the Occupation

  • Paris 1940-1944, The Routine under Siege
  • Masters of the Image
  • The German Presence
  • Paris and Collaboration
  • Expositions
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Deliberately "Blurring Daily Life"
  • Paris is hungry, Paris is cold
  • Production
  • Labor Unions in Disarray
  • The War Goes On
  • Multiple Resistances
  • The Resistance Goes Public
  • Cracking Down
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  • The Original Exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris
  • Acknowledgements and credits
  • Accessibility
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  • Français / English
  • Typical Leisure Activities and Stage-Managed Photographs
  • Supervised Ceremonies
  • At the Opéra
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Les Visiteurs du soir (Evening Visitors) by Marcel Carné on display at the Ciné-Opéra


Anonymous photograph, April 1943 © LAPI /Roger-Viollet
The film that came out in December 1942 responded to a need for diversion of the spectator transposed into the fantastical universe of the Middle Ages within an operetta, but it was also perceived as a parable of the Resistance triumphing over the occupiers.