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On Jean-Pierre Le Goff's Mai 68, l'héritage impossible and Gérard Filoche's 68-98, Histoire sans fin

On Jean-Pierre Le Goff's Mai 68, l'héritage impossible and Gérard Filoche's 68-98, Histoire sans fin 1 Independent on Sunday , 26 December 1999, cited Flett 2000, p. 2. It does not seem to have occurred to Fearn that some sit-in leaders were, if not ‘girls’, at least women. Or perhaps he assumes they were all lesbians. 2 Hamon & Rotman 1987–8. Mai 68, l’héritage impossible J EAN -P IERRE L E G OFF Paris: La Découverte, 1998 68–98, Histoire sans Žn G ÉRARD F ILOCHE Paris: Flammarion, 2000 Reviewed by I AN B IRCHALL In Britain, it is easy to trivialise the sixties. One Nicholas Fearn recently told readers of the Independent on Sunday that ‘leading sit-ins at the LSE were [sic!] always, one suspects, a good way of impressing the girls’. 1 In France, things look rather different; 1968 formed a whole generation and initiated irreversible changes in French society. Jean-Pierre Le Goff’s book is a thousand kilometres removed from the ungrammatical inanities of a Fearn. Its 465 pages are closely documented and any reader will learn much from it. And yet Le Goff ’s work is striking not so much for what it contains as for what it omits. Le Goff aims not just to study the events of 1968, but http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

On Jean-Pierre Le Goff's Mai 68, l'héritage impossible and Gérard Filoche's 68-98, Histoire sans fin

Birchall, Ian
Historical Materialism , Volume 10 (2): 247 – Jan 1, 2002
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1 Independent on Sunday , 26 December 1999, cited Flett 2000, p. 2. It does not seem to have occurred to Fearn that some sit-in leaders were, if not ‘girls’, at least women. Or perhaps he assumes they were all lesbians. 2 Hamon & Rotman 1987–8. Mai 68, l’héritage impossible J EAN -P IERRE L E G OFF Paris: La Découverte, 1998 68–98, Histoire sans Žn G ÉRARD F ILOCHE Paris: Flammarion, 2000 Reviewed by I AN B IRCHALL In Britain, it is easy to trivialise the sixties. One Nicholas Fearn recently told readers of the Independent on Sunday that ‘leading sit-ins at the LSE were [sic!] always, one suspects, a good way of impressing the girls’. 1 In France, things look rather different; 1968 formed a whole generation and initiated irreversible changes in French society. Jean-Pierre Le Goff’s book is a thousand kilometres removed from the ungrammatical inanities of a Fearn. Its 465 pages are closely documented and any reader will learn much from it. And yet Le Goff ’s work is striking not so much for what it contains as for what it omits. Le Goff aims not just to study the events of 1968, but

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