Rémy Cazals: Borieblanque : Un réseau d'aide aux femmes réfugiées en France sous l'Occupation

Labour and Society Research Group Seminar

Location: Lecture Theatre 1.29, Daysh Building, Newcastle University
Time/Date: 7th March 2012, 12:00 - 13:00

This lecture will be given to undergraduate students of the course, Gender religion and Politics in France 1789 to the present and will examine the correspondence of the network of women who benefited from the resistance work of Marie-Louise Puech, long time pacifist and feminist who organised her home as centre for refugees during the Occupation of France.

(en français) Open to all.

Rémy Cazals is Professor at Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail. He is one of France’s pre-eminent historians of the First World War and is associated with the study of the notebooks of Louis Barthas an infantryman from a peasant background. He is also a labour historian and an expert in the regional history of South West France. Amongst his numerous publications include Avec les ouvriers de Mazamet (dans la grève et l’action quotidienne, 1909-1914 (1978) and Lettres de réfugiées. Le réseau de Borieblanque. Des étrangères dans la France de Vichy (2004).

Published: 20th January 2012

Published: 9th February 2012