The uncertain foundation : France at the Liberation, 1944-47 / edited by Andrew Knapp.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : France's "long" liberation, 1944-47 / Andrew Knapp -- The liberation and the institutional question in France / Emmanuel Cartier -- Sénat ou pas Sénat? : the "first" Council of the Republic / Paul Smith -- De Gaulle and the paradox of post-war French politics / David Goldey -- Replacement or renewal? : the French political élite at the liberation / Olivier Wieviorka -- "The politics of political women" : reassessing the first députées / Hilary Footitt -- France's liberation era, 1944-47 : a social and economic settlement? / Herrick Chapman -- Catholics and the long liberation : the progressive moment / Nicholas Atkin -- Whose liberation? : confronting the problem of the French empire, 1944-47 / Martin Shipway -- Moscow, the Parti communiste franc̦ais, and France's political recovery / Natalia Naoumova -- Washington at the liberation, 1944-47 / Charles Cogan and Andrew Knapp -- The half-open window : France and Britain, 1944-47 / Andrew Knapp -- Occupation, liberation, purges : the changing landscape of French memory / Philippe Buton.