| Titre | Les papiers de Jean Zay. Nouvelles sources d'archives pour l'histoire du début du XXe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Caroline Piketty | |
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Revue | Histoire@Politique |
| Numéro | no 16, janvier 2012 La culture économique des hommes politiques à l'épreuve du pouvoir | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Sources |
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| Page | 175-186 | |
| Résumé |
Les Archives nationales ont été honorées d'accueillir les papiers de Jean Zay plus de soixante ans après son assassinat par des miliciens. Elles gardent déjà en dépôt les papiers de nombreux contemporains de Jean Zay, ainsi ceux de Léon Blum, Vincent Auriol, Georges Mandel ou Édouard Daladier, et elle ient de recevoir ceux de Jacques Chevalier et de Georges Bonnet qui éclaireront l'histoire de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Résumé anglais |
The National Archives have acquired and made public the papers of Jean-Zay (1904-1944), which form an important source for deepening our understanding of the political and cultural history of France in the first half of the twentieth century. Half Jewish, half Protestant, Jean Zay was a deeply cultured man, a lawyer, who as a very young Radical deputy from the Loiret, helped launch the Popular Front. A target of the extreme right from 1934, he joined the government in January 1936. In June of that year, Blum nominated him to be Minister of National Education and Fine Arts, thereby placing him in the centre of the politics of French cultural life. Arrested in August 1940 by the French police on his arrival in Morocco of the Massilia, he was imprisoned, and on 4 October 1940, convicted on blatantly political grounds of having deserted in the face of the enemy. His sentence was incarceration in perpetuity. Throughout the 47 months of his imprisonment, Jean Zay wrote letters, stories, notes on his work as minister, reflections on his memory and his solitude. On 20 June 1944, he was transferred into the hands of the para-military Milice, who murdered him. Jean Zay loved literature, theatre, music and sports. His tastes and passions grew out of a strong family life. His unique papers reveal his mode of work, his humanism, and throw considerable light on the period of the 1930s and early 1940s in France. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=HP_016_0175 |
