LEADER 04278nam 2200649 450 001 9910828386303321 005 20230803032338.0 010 $a1-5017-5818-7 010 $a1-60909-080-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758188 035 $a(CKB)2670000000560626 035 $a(EBL)3382560 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001107616 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12414574 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001107616 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11081992 035 $a(PQKB)11605914 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382560 035 $a(OCoLC)867741336 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29260 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10950044 035 $a(OCoLC)923310849 035 $a(DE-B1597)571101 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758188 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000560626 100 $a20141015h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aYears of plenty, years of want $eFrance and the legacy of the Great War /$fBenjamin Franklin Martin ; Shaun Allshouse, design 210 1$aDeKalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2013. 210 4$d©2013 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-87580-468-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface and Ac knowledgments""; ""1a???July 1914""; ""2a???Georgesa???The Defiant""; ""3a???The Thibaults""; ""4a???Shifting Ground""; ""5a???Edouarda???The Hesitant""; ""6a???August 1939""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 $aThe Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the Western Front. French dead were more than 1.3 million, the permanently disabled another 1.1 million, overwhelmingly men in their twenties and thirties. The decade and a half before the war had been years of plenty, a time of increasing prosperity and confidence remembered as the Belle Epoque or the good old days. The two decades that followed its end were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory. In 1939, France went to war dreading defeat.To explain the burden of winning the Great War and embracing the collapse that followed, Benjamin Martin examines the national mood and daily life of France in July 1914 and August 1939, the months that preceded the two world wars. He presents two titans: Georges Clemenceau, defiant and steadfast, who rallied a dejected nation in 1918, and Edouard Daladier,hesitant and irresolute, who espoused appeasement in 1938 though comprehending its implications. He explores novels by a constellation of celebrated French writers who treated the Great War and its social impact, from Colette to Irène Némirovsky, from François Mauriac to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And he devotes special attention to Roger Martin du Gard, the1937 Nobel Laureate, whose roman-fleuve The Thibaults is an unrivaled depiction of social unraveling and disillusionment.For many in France, the legacy of the Great War was the vow to avoid any future war no matter what the cost. They cowered behind the Maginot Line, the fortifications along the eastern border designed to halt any future German invasion. Others knew that cost would be too great and defended the "Descartes Line": liberty and truth, the declared values of French civilization. In his distinctive and vividly compelling prose, Martin recounts this struggle for the soul of France. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xInfluence 607 $aFrance$xHistory$y1914-1940 607 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1914-1940 607 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y20th century 610 $aWWI, World War I, France in WWI, George Clemenceau, Edouard Daladier, Roger Martin du Gard, Nobel Laureate, The Thibaults, Descartes line. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xInfluence. 676 $a944.081/5 700 $aMartin$b Benjamin F.$f1947-$01368468 702 $aAllshouse$b Shaun 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828386303321 996 $aYears of plenty, years of want$94027315 997 $aUNINA