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July 2, 2021

Gayle and Annette presented at the Society for the Study of French History in a panel entitled: “Political Violence and Terrorism from the Belle Epoque to Vichy.”

We gave papers along with Professor Chris Millington (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Professor Caroline Campbell (University of North Dakota). The conference was organized by the University of Westminster in collaboration with the Society for the Study of French History, and hosted by H-France.

Our paper was entitled:

“Terrorism on the extreme right: The Cagoule and state terror in France, 1936-1944.”

Find the conference program here:

http://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference/210623%20-%20SSFH%202021%20Programme.pdf

Find the link to our presentation here:

http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/le6u0

March 26, 2021

Gayle and Annette hold their 2nd book launch with the University of Toronto Press.

Assassination in Vichy:

https://youtu.be/NixgW3hTivQ

January 21, 2021

A Second Article in Montluçon paper about Gayle and Annette and Their Book, Assassination in Vichy.

Marx Dormoy was mayor of Montluçon, and the city continues to promote his memory. Gayle and Annette are discussed again as the “two Americans” working on the history of Marx Dormoy.

January 2, 2021

Gayle Brunelle Interviewed in Local Montluçon Paper.

As knowledge of Assassination in Vichy circulates, Gayle is interviewed by local papers about the experience of working on Marx Dormoy’s murder.

December 6, 2020

Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite are pleased to announce the publication of their new book, Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France published by the University of Toronto Press and available now in November, 2020.

The authors will hold a virtual book launch via ZOOM on Sunday, December 6 at 10 am PST, 1pm EST, 6PM GMT and 7 pm CET. Dr. Chris Millington from Manchester Metropolitan University will moderate the event. Dr. Finley-Croswhite will speak from the United States, Dr. Brunelle from France, and Dr. Millington from the United Kingdom.

Use this link to register: https://forms.gle/4nTCjbUSQEGHBkjp7

October, 2020

Assassination in Vichy is published and Gayle and Annette get their first copies.

November 21-23, 2019

Gayle and Annette were invited to speak at the conference: “Towards a Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism: New Perspectives on Political Violence and Assassinations by the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900.” Hosted by Professors Moritz Florin and Johannes Dafinger at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Annette was part of the opening panel and both scholars contributed to the paper that Gayle presented entitled: “Trading in Arms, Trading in Terror: The Cagoule and Transnational Terrorism in France, 1936-1941.”

Gayle and Annette with their husbands Bernard and Chip out and about on a trip to Germany in November 2019. See pictures of all four of us.

November 3, 2019

Interview with Gayle K. Brunelle on Stéphanie Duncan’s popular radio show on “France Inter” entitled “Autant en Emporte l’Histoire” – “Carried away with history—or Gone with History.” She is also featured here in the picture with writer Vincent Hazard.

“1941 Marx Dormoy, minister du Front Popularie est assassin par la Cagoule.”

July 31, 2013.

Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite interviewed for “New Books in Biography.” Listen to them discuss, Murder in the Métro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France (Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 2010). The interview occurred on July 31, 2013.

2011-2019 Archival Search

Gayle and Annette spend 2011-2019 working on Assassination in Vichy traveling to Paris, Moulins, Montluçon and many other sites and archives associated with the life and death of Marx Dormoy. Pictures are included here as well as ones of our favorite chocolate shop we found in Moulins.

Summer 2011- Visit to Montélimar

In the summer of 2011, Gayle and Annette began researching the murder of Marx Dormoy. When they arrived in Montélimar, the town where he was assassinated, the hotel where he died had just been closed and boarded up. It caught fire years later and is abandoned today. In 2011 the authors had the great fortune of meeting the last manager of the hotel, Mme. Liliane Latry whose father had been the hotel’s celebrity chef right after World War II. Mme. Latry grew up in the hotel. A picture is included here of the delicious “nougat,” a speciality of the city.

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