Mind the Gap: The Perception and Reality of Communist Sabotage of French War Production during the Phoney War 1939-1940*I wish to thank the following people for comments and criticisms on earlier drafts: Andrew Barros, John Cairns, Alexandra Harvey, Meredith Hindley, Martin Horn, Peter Jackson, Ken Mouré and Martin Thomas. A version was presented to the Association des étudiants en histoire, Université Laval, and to the Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Conference, Toronto, April 2002. Research for this article was made possible by financial support from the Département d'histoire and from the Faculté des lettres, Université Laval.