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ABSTRACTS Marie-Pierre Ullua (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, France) Conflicting Legacies: the Instrumentation of World War II and the French-Algerian War: the Case of the Jeanson Network Marie-Pierre Ulloa in her paper, "Conflicting Legacies: the Instrumentalization of WWII and the French-Algerian War: the Case of the Jeanson Network,” examines how the resistance to Nazism influenced the collective identity of the Jeanson network, otherwise known as the porteurs de valise during the French-Algerian War. Jeanson belonged to a network of French intellectuals, mostly leftist and Catholic dissenters who opposed the French-Algerian War. The group’s actions consisted of hiding Algerian activists in France and collecting the funds contributed to the cause by Algerians in France and transmitting them by suitcases—hence porteurs de valises—to the Front de libération nationale abroad. Ulloa investigates the impact the memory of Vichy France had on the construction of the network. She will focus on the dichotomy between the leader of the network, Francis Jeanson, on one side, and the other younger members of his network, on the other side, who apprehended the legacy of WWII differently. Jeanson as a Gaullist resistant during WWII was interned in a Spanish concentration camp in 1943 before joining the Algerian nationalist struggle. But, contrary to his fellow porteurs de valises who saw themselves as the heirs of the resistance, Jeanson did not conflate the resistance to Nazism with the resistance to French colonialism in Algeria. Her paper examines the instrumentalization of the past and the way resistance to Nazism and French collaboration with the occupant had or had not found its way into the creation of the Jeanson network. |
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