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The evidence of this study suggests that the workers of the farms and in the towns of the Isère had mentally resigned themselves to facing a continuation of the war through 1919 and, if need be, into 1920. In all the data from various sources on the question of public opinion and attitudes to the war of the local population, the word ‘résignation’ appears most prominently, from the early days of the state of emergency and the mobilisation, through the dark days of Verdun, right up to the last days of the war. As has been seen, the bulk of opinion wavered somewhere in the middle, outside the extremes of outright revanchisme and overt opposition to the war. The vast majority of civilians put up with the war, even if they did not support it enthusiastically.
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Flood, P.J. (1990). Conclusions. In: France 1914–18. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10966-1_8
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