Abstract EN:

The thesis includes a collection of studies on the period of the fourties. Published works: -"Vichy, 1940-1944"; -"Liberation in the Loire valley countries"; - "Loiret in war-time"; - "Captivity; a history of the french prisoners of war, 1939-1945"; - "The daily life of the prisoners of war, 1939-1945". Articles and other publications : - "Vichy policy at work in the provinces : the "Departement du Loiret" as an exemple", in "Le Gouvernement de Vichy, 1940-1942"; -"The regional policy of Vichy at work : the regional "prefecture" of Orleans", in "Regions et regionalismes"; - "Political collaboration in the countries of central Loire", in revue d'histoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale, juillet 1973 "Reconstruction and urban projects on the ruins of juin 1940 : the bombed out cities of the loiret as an exemple" (in rev. D'hist. De la deux. Guerre mond. , juillet 1970). - "Modernisation and reconstruction : conclusions drawn from the study of the rebuilding of Orleans. " in the symposium on France getting modernized (fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1981). - "The Organisations of former prisoners of war" in "war's memory" (universite of metz). All these works are dealing with a common theme, that of the relationships between opinion and the "authorities", in France, between 1939 and 1949. They aim at understanding better : -how war, the occupation and the liberation of France together with its aftermath, have been lived through by French populations. -how, at bottom level, populations have reacted to the problems arising from those events; - how those reactions interacted with the position related to the same events and problems which were taken by the successive local and central authorities, during those troubled times.