1943: (Sylvain-Bouchereau’s End-of-Year Report on the Foyer Ouvrier — In Her 1943 End-of-the-Year Report Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau Announcing “The Foyer O…

1943: (Sylvain-Bouchereau’s End-of-Year Report on the Foyer Ouvrier — In Her 1943 End-of-the-Year Report Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau Announcing “The Foyer Ouvrier Is in Full Formation and Is Already Visited by More Than 460 Workers — It Is a Continuous Creation Which Adapts to All Needs and Which Realizes Collaboration and Understanding Between the Different Classes”): In her 1943 end-of-the-year report, Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau announced that the Foyer Ouvrier was in full formation and already visited by more than 460 workers. It was a continuous creation which adapted to all needs and which realized collaboration and understanding between the different classes — the 460 workers represented a constituency far larger than the LFAS membership itself, evidence that the institutional strategy of creating physical meeting spaces was succeeding where rhetorical appeals to cross-class unity had not.