By Jean Guéhenno, from Diary of the Dark Years, 1940–1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris, out this month from Oxford University Press. Guéhenno (1890–1978) was a writer, editor, and teacher. Translated from the French by David Ball.
february 14, 1941
My profession as a teacher is the main part of my life, and I blame myself for noting nothing or almost nothing about it here. It’s the time of year when I begin to talk about the eighteenth century, for my work is regulated in such a way that every year…
