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
  • From Assistance to Resistance
  • Le Comité Parisien de la Libération (The Parisian Liberation Committee)
  • Les Editions de Minuit, a clandestine publisher
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L'honneur des poètes (The Honor of Poets), 1943


Musée du Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque et musée de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin © Roger-Viollet

This clandestine anthology gathered together the poems of approximately twenty poets inclined towards resistance, among them Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Pierre Emmanuel, and Pierre Seghers. The printing notice mentions the fact that it was printed "at the expense of a few patriotic bibliophiles," "under Nazi occupation, on July 14, 1943, the day of oppressed liberty"