A beautiful Cécile Desprairies inventory this heritage of Vichy, ed. Armand Colin, who carries the subtitle "These hundred measures still in effect." In fact there must be over a hundred in areas that do not suspect lon. Many books deal with the period of the occupation, no, until this day, sétait ventured to take stock of the measures taken under Vichy. We retain Vichy generally as Mother's Day or the creation of the Order of Physicians. Social work through health we do not suspect the number of established reforms in all spheres of society by Marshal Petain and his government. These measures were, for the most part, simply endorsed by a signature at the Liberation and continue to govern us. Many of them have more were taken to alleviate the famine; armistice conditions were harsh and products arriving from the colonies no longer passed the seas. This is how rice cultivation exploded in the Camargue, it went from 210 hectares in 1941 to 650 tonnes to 800 hectares in 1944 to 2,200 tons. Entire trainloads of raw materials and manufacturing of objects were leaving every day in Germany, he had to find solutions. In the diet, Vichy developed lusage of typical oil of grape seeds to overcome the lack darachides, legislated on cheese products prized by loccupant- and decreed the famous Maroilles would be an "appellation contrôlée"! The restaurants were required to make a fixed-price menu; the meal tickets, restaurants, tickets ancestors were born. In the social sector progress is noticeable and sometimes breathtaking: in 1910 a law established retirement for workers and peasants of 65, but is little or not enforced. In 1940 Vichy legislates and creates old retired at the age of sixty! Mitterrand reactivated this reform in 1981. While many of hygienic measures came into being under the influence of fear of epidemics German -The compulsory medical examination in school medicine or other workers emanate directly from the National Revolution program.
The complaint may contact louvrage lon is to process one after the other measures in their respective fields, without differentiating those taken before November 1942 and those taken after WHEN IT ny was more demarcation line. But as the decrees of the dates are given everything we know on what period of the occupation they are located. The author preferred to process the measurements by themes: Daily Life, Food, Culture, Education, Crafts, Sports and Health. Vichy had towards women an oscillating policy. In the collective memory he reserved a place in the last stationed, this is not entirely accurate. One is sometimes surprised even by the actions of Laval, and this is:
"The February 2, 1943 appears in the Official Gazette a law on the payment by check: women can now open a bank account without under authority of their husbands. "(P. 142)
The terrain was dangerous, undermined; talking about social measures under Vichy demblée catapult you into the camp of the nostalgic darkest hours in our history. Author sen doing well and realizes a true balance sheet without bias. As it is never too careful, Cecile Desprairies made his book preface by Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie, proper historian. Louvrage is essential both professional amateur historian quau to which some surprises.
