Sports Policy in the Nord and the Pas-de-Calais under the Vichy Regime (1940-1944)

The historical treatment of the Vichy government covers several areas political, economic, legal and cultural However, the historians who have taken stock of the work of Marshal Petain and the Vichy regime failed to take into account an essential element of the National Revolution Indeed if the sports policies of the regime have aroused the interest of French historians since the 1990s, only few people measured their degree of appropriation at the regional level with, of course, the exception of Alsace-Lorraine The geographical partition of the country in this period offers, however, many other possible research directions It is in light of the particularity of the North and Pas-de-Calais, part of the Forbidden Zone proclaimed by the Germans in 1940, that we propose to analyze the degree of appropriation of the sports policies implemented by Vichy