Departmental Committee of Liberation

The Departmental Committee of Liberation (French: Comité départemental de libération; CDL) was a structure of the French Resistance. In 1944, in each French department, the Resistance unified around a civil resistance structure (the Committee) and a military one (the French Forces of the Interior). The Committees developed out of the desire of the MUR (Mouvements Unis de la Résistance, or MUR) and the Free French Forces in London under general De Gaulle to give political representation to the Resistance forces fighting in France. In each commune, a Local Committee of Liberation (Comité local de libération) represented the Departmental Committee of Liberation.

Newspaper

The CDL created the daily newspaper, L'Appel with a radical socialist communist outlook. In December 1944, this became the newspaper, La Voix Républicaine.

Further reading

• Foulon, Charles-Louis (1975). Le Pouvoir en province a la liberation [Power in the Provinces at Liberation]. Travaux et recherches de science politique, #32 (in French). Paris: Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. OCLC 503182302.

• Funk, Arthur Layton (1992). Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27995-9.

• King, Francis Paul (1952). The Third Force in French Politics. Stanford University.

• Mourlot, Carole (1998). François Marcot (ed.). Le Comité Départemental de Libération du Doubs [Departmental Liberation Committee of the Doubs] (mémoire de maîtrise [Master's]) (in French). Besançon: Université de Franche-Comté.

• Niemeyer, Gerhart (1963). Communists in Coalition Governments. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. pp. 54–.

• Political science quarterly. 1947.

• Werth, Alexander (1966). France, 1940-1955. Beacon Press.