Pacifists -- France -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Gabriel Alix Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Alix, Gabriel
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts (typescript), publicity materials, and photographs.
Dates:
1948-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Frédéric Passy Collection
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Passy, Frederic
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, and periodicals.
Dates:
1863-1912
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Romain Rolland Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Rolland, Romain
Abstract
Romain Rolland was a French pacifist intellectual who opposed World War I. He won the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature. He helped introduce teachings of Gandhi to the West, opposed fascism, and supported the Popular Front.
Dates:
1918-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-107
Abstract
André and Magda Trocmé are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. By 1942 the Germans...
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
