Cultural affairs under Vichy -- Defending French style and beauty -- Exodus -- Museums fit for France -- Saving historic sites -- Archeology and the national revolution -- Recycling French heroes : the destruction of bronze statues -- Endangered local patrimony : bronze statues in Paris, Chambéry, and Nantes -- Jewish art collections -- Art as a negotiating tool -- The Vichy legacy
Summary
This work explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. It examines the preservation policy that the Vichy regime enacted in an assertion of sovereignty over French art museums, historic monuments, and archaeological sites
