The fall of France in June 1940, La Debacle, posed a challenge to
France's understanding of itself. Could the existing "sacred"
narrative of French history established by the Third Republic hold
in the face of the defeat of France's military and political
systems, both built upon its foundations? The French Historical
Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her
Contemporaries Face the Debacle focuses on assessments of the
Debacle and places Simone Weil's writings of 1938 to 1943 within
this continuum. This study recreates the debate in those fraught
years to posit a "horizon of expectations" within which to place
and better appreciate Simone Weil's writing of the period, far
reaching and bold but hardly "crazy" (as De Gaulle is said to have
characterized her ideas).
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