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At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

A talk with Nicole Rudolph, professor of French Studies at Adelphi University. From Maison Française: After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. In At Home in Postwar France Nicole Rudolph argues that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building, designers and…