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Forbidden citizenship — the stakes of suffragism, Florence Rochefort. France was one of the last European countries to extend suffrage to women, though it had been claimed since the Revolution. The suffragist movement, long faced with the hostility of political parties, became autonomous only in the interwar period. It was then caught between the opposition of the Senate, which rejected on three occasions bills voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and public opinion, distrustful of a divided feminist movement, accused either of wanting to deprive men of their power or of forgetting the proletarians' condition.

The women's vote and the end of "French exceptionalism", Odile Rudelle. The years 1946-1983 were, with respect to suffrage, a period of dynamic difference between genders. In the contexts of Liberation, decolonization, and post cold war, this difference weighed in favor of republican constitutionalism. An analysis of the four elections which registered a significant difference between men and women (1946, 1965, 1974, and 1981) shows that the female electorate may have sought the modernization of French politics rather than the narrow conservatism feared by the opponents of women's suffrage.

French women voters, 1945 to 1993, Janine Mossuz-Lavau. In five decades French women voters learned how to handle the tool finally at their disposal. Three periods mark the

Memory wars in France, Daniel Lindenberg. The author proposes a transversal analysis of the periods which marked French national memory, from the Revolution to the Algerian war. He seeks to describe and explain the double movement of accumulation and selection characteristic of the link between French identity and the past.