Underground Resistance
Publications of the underground resistance movement, and literature inspired by the movement, constitute a significant section of the Brisebois collections. These materials originate in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, and include books, pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, and newspapers. A representative sample is exhibited here.
Most text by Michel Brisebois, the original owner of the collection.
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À tous les Français. La France a perdu une bataille !...Vive la France. Général de Gaulle. 18 janvier 1940. Small-size reproduction of the famous broadside of De Gaulle's speech. Probably distributed in the occupied zone.
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Detailed instructions on escaping from the POW camps. Interesting use of a camouflage title-- "sporting activity"--for a subversive pamphlet; also designed in blue and red to give the appearance of a Vichy publication.
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Les Beautés... de « l'ordre nouveau ». Probably 1942. Leaflet showing a series of caricatures opposing the Service du travail obligitaire, the forced enlistment and deportation of hundreds of thousands of French workers to Germany during WWII.
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La Voce de la Patria. Giornale Clandestino dei soldati italiani intelligenti. Febbraia 1945. Italian underground newspaper, also used as safe conduct for soldiers joining the partisans or the Allies.
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TROUW. Tweede Jaargang no.5. Midden Juni n.d. [1944]. Dutch undergound newsletter. Contains news of the Normandy landing. |
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Robert Desnos, État de veille; [poèmes] Dix gravures au burin par Gaston-Louis Roux. Paris, 1943. First edition limited 170 copies. Desnos was the famous Dada and Surrealist writer. He joined the Resistance, was arrested and died in Theresienstadt in 1945. On the half-title, this inscription: À Madame Antelme, protectrice des persécutés, avec la reconnaissance de Desnos, 26 mai 43. Madame Antelme is none other than famous writer Marguerite Duras, wife of Robert Antelme. The work is illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates by Roux. The book was printed by Jean Grou-Radenez who was also arrested shortly after and died in deportation.
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Un chant s'envole et montre et remplit le faubourg/ clamant bien haut la haine, la souffrance et l'espoir...Notre part au combat, Faire luire les beaux jours. La Roquette 14 juillet 1943. J.G. Autograph poem signed with initials and attributed to Jacqueline Farge, possibly the original manuscript of the famous poem, published by Paul Éluard in Europe (Éditions de Minuit), 1944. An image of the published version can be viewed below.
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