Uncertain Foundation

ANDREW KNAPP is Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Reading, UK. He is author of Le Gaullisme apr?s de Gaulle and Parties and the Party System in France, and co-author of Government and Politics in Western Europe (with Yves M?ny) and The Government and Politics of France (with Vincent Wright).

• Introduction: France's 'Long' Liberation, 1944-47; A.Knapp The Liberation and the Institutional Question in France; E.Cartier 'Sénat ou pas Sénat?' - The 'First' Council of the Republic; P.Smith De Gaulle and the Paradox of Post-War French Politics; D.Goldey Replacement or Renewal? The French Political Élite at the Liberation; O.Wieviorka 'The Politics of Political Women': Reassessing the First Députées ; H.Footitt France's Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?; H.Chapman Catholics and the Long Liberation: The Progressive Moment; N.Atkin Whose Liberation? Confronting the Problem of the French Empire, 1944-1947; M.Shipway Moscow, the Parti Communiste Français, and France's Political Recovery; N.Naoumova Washington at the Liberation, 1944-1947; C.Cogan & A.Knapp The Half-Open Window: France and Britain, 1944-1947; A.Knapp Occupation, Liberation, Purges: the Changing Landscape of French Memory; P.Buton