The Great War: from witnesses to historians, from memory to history?
The opposition between witnesses and historians as figures, narrators and as authors united by their interest in narratives of the past and reflecting in part the canonical opposition between memory and history, is commonly accepted. In the crystallisation of these two entities and of their opposit...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire
2014
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The opposition between witnesses and historians as figures, narrators and as authors united by their interest in narratives of the past and reflecting in part the canonical opposition between memory and history, is commonly accepted. In the crystallisation of these two entities and of their opposition, the Great War plays a role that cannot be neglected, at least for France. With the death in 2008 of Lazare Ponticelli, the “last remaining poilu”, and at a time when there are only a few cente... |
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