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On the surface and viewed from the vantage of the present, Fauxbras’s literary pursuits and his life experiences appear fragmentary and coherence. What did the worldly encounters of the sailor, the accountant, the writer, the trade unionist or the prisoner of war have in common? Yet, for all the fact that he reinvented himself, passing from one social situation to another, he developed his own understanding of the way that the world moved.
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Perry, M. (2011). Epilogue. In: Memory of War in France, 1914–45. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297746_9
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