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
  • Indifference, rejection
  • Seducing, forbidding
  • The German Stranglehold
  • Looting
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"An incident just occurred at the Rue de Rivoli--a German officer took out his revolver after he was booed, and the police slow- slow- slowly emptied the street. Historic day May 11, 1941, 15 h 45"


Photograph Daniel Leduc
Champigny-sur-Marne, Musée de la Résistance nationale © MRN

Over the airwaves of the BBC, General de Gaulle called for the people to be "present on public promenades," between 15h and 16h and to remain silent on Sunday, May 11, Joan of Arc's saint's day. His appeal was highly successful both in the provinces and in Paris. In the Place des Pyramides, "promenading" residents shouted "Hors de France les Barbares!" (Out of France the Barbarians!), "Vive de Gaulle!" (Long live de Gaulle!), "Vive Churchill!" (Long live Churchill!), and "Hou, les affameurs!" (Down with the Starvers!).
Advertisement for the hairdresser Jean-Pierre in French and German, 10, rue Duphot, 1942
© LAPI/Roger-Viollet