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- Title
Just Who Was Gaston Bergery?
- Authors
Pourcher, Yves
- Abstract
This article retraces the career of an important political figure from the interwar period in France who oscillated between Left and Right and ended up as a lackey to the Vichy regime. After reviewing the principal work pertaining to Bergery, this article emphasizes his ambiguity and complexity. A bourgeois, a left-wing elected official, the director of a newspaper, advocating a political current opposing communism and fascism even as he pursued an active life as a social butterfly, Bergery disrupts classical political categories. To try to get a grip on him, several archives are revisited: his officer's and ambassador's dossiers, the documents of his trial. A search for eyewitnesses is conducted. All the information gathered underlines the paradoxes and contradictions of an individual. Gaston Bergery's case proves to be a fascinating entry point by which to re-read an era and a milieu.
- Subjects
FRANCE; BERGERY, Gaston, 1892-1974; POLITICIANS; PARTI Republicain Radical et Radical-Socialiste (Political party : France); COLLABORATIONISTS in World War II; GERMAN occupation of France, 1940-1945; ANTI-fascist movements; ANTI-communist movements; FRENCH politics &; government, 1914-1940; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 2014, Vol 40, Issue 3, p131
- ISSN
0315-7997
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/hrrh.2014.400307