A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an 'occupied culture' existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other.

James E. Connolly is a Lecturer in Modern French History in the French Department at University College London

Introduction
Part I: 'Misconduct' and disunity
1 Sexual misconduct
2 General misconduct and popular reprisals
3 Male misconduct
4 Une Sacrée désunion? Conflict continues
5 Moral borderlands: Criminality during the occupation
Part II: Popular patriotism and resistance avant la majuscule
6 Notable protests: respectable resistance (coups de gueule polis)
7 Symbolic resistance (coups de coeur)
8 Active resistance (coups de poker, coups d'éclat)
Epilogue: Liberation, Remembering and Forgetting
Index