<i>Mauvaise conduite:</i>complicity and respectability in the occupied Nord, 1914–1918

Connolly, James E.

doi:10.1080/19475020.2012.761382

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“…Sexual relations were derided as much as denunciations; friendly relations were scorned as much as commerce with the Germans. Some have criticised this definition, which I have outlined briefly elsewhere, 14 as being a catch-all term that is too broad. 15 However, that is precisely the point -for adherents of occupied culture, there was little distinction between behaviours that broke the law and those that breached the expectations of occupied culture.…”

Section: Defining Mauvaise Conduitementioning

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Part I: ‘Misconduct’ and disunity

Connolly¹

2018

The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914– 18

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This first part of the book considers French behaviours under occupation that challenge the narrative of dignified suffering and patriotism. 1 There is a temptation simply to label such behaviours 'collaboration' , as certain historians have done. 2 I believe that this should be avoided. Only very few members of the occupied population used the word in a negative sense, 3 making its use anachronistic-although anachronistic terms can still be useful to historians. Yet the term is too associated in French cultural and historical memory with the Vichy regime, especially with the notion of political or ideological complicity with the occupiers, which was largely absent in the context of the First World War. Of course, underlying ideas related to the notion of 'collaboration' are useful, as are reflections on the grey area of 'accommodation' or more simply 'survival'. 4 The following chapters include certain behaviours that other scholars of the 1914-18 occupation have labelled as 'accommodation' or 'rapprochement' , 5 but which were subject to criticism during the occupation. Occupied life was complex, defying neat categorisation, and unsurprisingly there existed a fluid, murky boundary between patriotism and treason. Nevertheless, I offer up suggestive analytical categories in my study that focuses in particular on the extremes of the spectrum, with which the dominant occupied culture was particularly concerned. Central to this culture was the notion of respectability, involving unwritten but widely accepted social mores combined with patriotic expectations, which dictated what was perceived as correct and incorrect behaviour. It informed French interaction with the thousands of German men living alongside them. Many were aware of this moralpatriotic framework and the potential criticism from compatriots for

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Section: Defining Mauvaise Conduitementioning

confidence: 99%

Part I: ‘Misconduct’ and disunity

Connolly¹

2018

The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914– 18

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“…Les détails donnés sur les comportements non-patriotiques, ce que nous avons appelé ailleurs la « mauvaise conduite », n'ont pas été nombreux dans les articles du Times pendant la guerre 88 . Il était connu qu'il existait un journal français pro-allemand, La Gazette des Ardennes 89 , mais ce fut seulement après l'Armistice que The Times écrivit sur les Français qui avaient travaillé pour cette publication et sur l'homme qui aurait trahi le Comité Jacquet 90 .…”

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L'occupation du nord de la France (1914-1918) vue par les Britanniques

Connolly¹

2014

Revue Du Nord

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Cet article examine la façon dont les Britanniques voyaient et comprenaient l’occupation du nord de la France pendant la Grande Guerre, au travers de la presse (notamment The Times ), les débats parlementaires et les documents du gouvernement. Il montre que la presse et le gouvernement étaient assez bien informés de ce qui se passait sur ce territoire. Les Britanniques s’inquiétaient de la souffrance des occupés français et belges – ils associaient et mélangeaient souvent ces deux occupations – mais ils en profitaient aussi pour mettre en avant le sort de ces populations qui pouvait conforter la présentation de la guerre comme une bataille de la « civilisation » contre la « barbarie » allemande. Les occupés étaient représentés comme patriotes, parfois résistants, et surtout victimes – ce dernier terme était même davantage utilisé au sujet des Britanniques en zone occupée. Après avoir éprouvé, pendant les hostilités et quelques temps après, un intérêt certain pour cet aspect de conflit, les Britanniques l’oublièrent vite.

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Forbidden Reading in Occupied Countries: Belgium and France, 1914–1918

Debruyne¹

2015

Reading and the First World War

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Mauvaise conduite:complicity and respectability in the occupied Nord, 1914–1918

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Part I: ‘Misconduct’ and disunity

Part I: ‘Misconduct’ and disunity

L'occupation du nord de la France (1914-1918) vue par les Britanniques

Forbidden Reading in Occupied Countries: Belgium and France, 1914–1918

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