ABSTRACT
As with a nebula, the contours of the “popular Resistance” are defined by a view of the whole. The historian is like an astronomer or a biologist: what he studies moves in time, when he observes it in detail he loses the vision of the whole, and vice versa; it is the constant back-and-forth between several levels of observation that allows him a complete knowledge of the system studied, in its dynamics and its interchanges.
