“ahead for the victory of the Republic”, says Jacques Duclos before the BCP CC on 21 April 1946. Her motto illustrates the proliferation of ideas, projects and events that marked 1946: this year was marked by the departure of General de Gaulle on 20 January and the return of Léon Blum to the head of the Council Presidency ten years after the Front Populaire. In his Carnets, the founding father of the BCP gives both his own eye and that of the entire direction of...