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ix Acknowledgments Many people have helped me with this book. Herrick chapman at newyork university and Gérard noiriel at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales have been invaluable mentors since its inception . Herrick chapman incarnates the ideal role model:honest,committed,and passionate about rigorous scholarship. it is impossible to take stock of the ways in which he has fostered my academic growth. i am grateful for his generosity of spirit. Gérard noiriel has been a great inspiration. He has taught me to ask hard questions of history, and to have the courage to propose unconventional answers. i also sincerely thank vicki caron, whose enthusiasm and magnanimity compete with her vast expertise in the subject matter of this book. i have been lucky to be in the regular company of scholars whom i admire. so many of them have contributed valuable suggestions, beginning in the early phases of my research, especially Eric Fassin, nancy Green, shanny Peer, Jacques revel, Martin schain, and Patrick Weil. still others have spent time discussing ideas with me at various stages: christian Baudelot, J. D. Bindenagel, christophe charle, Donna Evleth, catherine Fillon, sarah Fishman, christoph irmscher, Jonathan Judaken, sara Kimble, Francine Muel-Dreyfus, christophe Prochasson, Denis Provencher, victor rodwin, clifford rosenberg, Henry rousso, Judith schneider, Willa silverman, the late nicholas Wahl, and robert Zaretsky. their exchanges with me have had lasting impact. several archivists and librarians aided my research: stéphanie Méchine and David Peyceré at the archives of the Académie de Paris,régis rivet at the library of the École de médecine in Paris, ségolène Barbiche and Bernard vuillet at the Archives nationales,yves ozanam of the library of the ordre des avocats in Paris, vincent tuchais at the Archives de Paris, Aliette Wintrebert at the ordre des médecins, and sandi Edwards at Fondren library of rice university. i am very grateful to several institutions for intellectual and financial support. First and foremost is the institute of French studies at new york university, that special hub of intellectual discovery, my first academic home. i greatly appreciate the support given by nyu’s Graduate school of Arts and science for a Maccracken Fellowship and a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, by x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS the French government for a Bourse chateaubriand, and by the university of north carolina, chapel Hill’s institut français de Washington for a Gilbert chinard Fellowship. My three home institutions throughout the course of the later phases of my writing, Mount Holyoke college, the university of Maryland Baltimore county, and rice university, have all offered grants for follow-up research. At rice, i am particularly grateful for a Faculty research Fellowship from the Humanities research center as well as steady support from the Department of French studies and the school of Humanities. i thank the publishers of the following chapters and articles, portions of which appear in this book: “the Apology Moment: vichy Memories in 1990s France,” in Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation, ed. Elazar Barkan and Alexander Karn,259–285,copyright 2006 by the Board of trustees of the leland stanford Jr. university, all rights reserved, used with the permission of stanford university Press, www.sup.org; “Pride and Prejudice in the Professions: Women Doctors and lawyers in third republic France,” Journal of Women’s History 19, no. 3: 60–86, published and copyright 2007 by the Johns Hopkins university Press; “xenophobia in the Professions: From the third republic to the Fifth,” Contemporary French Civilization 21, no. 2 (2007): 9–38; “Apology and the Past in contemporary France,” French Politics, Culture and Society 26,no. 2 (2008):78–113;and “Apologizing for vichy in contemporary France,” in Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past, ed. Manfred Berg and Bernd schaefer, 135–163, copyright 2009 by the German Historical institute, reprinted with the permission of cambridge university Press. People are what make the institutions matter, and the colleagues i have met in each university have influenced my work in many ways. At rice university , i thank José Aranda, Bernard Aresu, Jean-Joseph Goux, Deborah Harter, Deborah nelson-campbell, and Philip Wood in the Department of French studies. in addition, my gratitude goes to carl caldwell, nana last, caroline levander, nanxiu Qian, and lora Wildenthal for their penetrating comments, quick answers, indefatigable encouragement, and friendship. Many thanks also to leticia Gonzales, Bill Klemm, and theresa Grasso Munisteri for their support ,as well...

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