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Vichy's denaturalized, 1940-1944, Bernard Laguerre. The Vichy regime's law of 22 July 1940 was enacted to revise the naturalizations which had been granted since the law of 10 August 1927 or even prior to it. It affected about 15 000 people, among whom 6-7 000 Jews. The law belonged to the xenophobic movement of the end of the Third Republic and constituted the first of the Vichy anti-Semitic dispositions. While it facilitated the deportation of the French Jews as part of the Final Solution, it was above all a manifestation of the national revolution as an ideology of exclusion.

Deng Xiaoping's French years, Geneviève Barman, Nicole Dulioust. Between 1920 and 1925, Deng Xiaoping lived in France for nearly five years. He had corne to study but had to work in a factory. He discovered the Chinese communist movement and little by little became one of its main leaders in France. These French years, heretofore imperfectly known, were thus decisive in the itinerary of this young bourgeois — barely more than a teenager. Through a careful and detailed study, the authors retrace their hazards and main lines within the framework of a more general study of the Chinese worker-student milieu in France.

Love of the fatherland in Marcel Proust's « Le temps retrouvé », Annick Cochet. Proust denied any documentary value to art and the characters of Le temps retrouvé have only a partial and relative view of the First World War. The analysis of the novel is nevertheless a mine of observations which the historian can use profitably : on " Parisian life " in the rear, on the manipulations of public opinion, on naive or carefully cultivated love, on the Fatherland. Heroes, egoists, or simple " good people ", the characters of Le temps retrouvé reveal a lot about the minds of French people at war and about the emergence of a system of control of social representations which were to have so many successors throughout the history of the 20th century.

Colonial cities and history of the Africans, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Africa has long been considered a vast rural continent in which urbanization developed at the impulse of colonizers. In fact, although marginal, African cities are ancient and have had a life of their own alongside western establishments. Since the early 1960s, urbanism has become the major phenomenon in black Africa. In 1990, the urban population will be larger than the rural population. The colonial city, from this point of view, initiated this process. But African town planners, trained in Western techniques and molds, will nevertheless have to integrate their customary heritage and the necessities of modern planning.

The French advertising market and the major media 1918-1970, Marc Martin. In the 1930s, the French advertising market found its outlets mostly in the written press, though posters and the fledgling radio played a non-negligible part. After the war, professionalism grew. In the 1960s, France truly entered the advertising era with news magazines and television. All of this had an effect on the uniformization of the written press.

The 1948 law on rents, Danièle Voldman. The 1948 law on rents which was meant to encourage real estate investment, did not produce the intended effects. Wanting to cater to both landlords and tenants — two incompatible parts — the parliamentarians missed their goal. The new law froze the situation it was supposed to open up, and by increasing rents substantially without increasing the value of housing for rent, it disgruntled everyone.