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Les représentations de la guerre dans la culture française de l'entre-deux-guerres

1994; Presses de Sciences Po; Volume: 41; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/xxs.1994.3263

1950-6678

Antoine Prost,

Cultural Identity and Heritage

The representations of war in French culture in the interwar period, Antoine Prost. War was indeed "dynamic" before 1914, but the experience of 1914-1918 ruined its previous representations. It was thereafter perceived both as a catastrophe and as fatal. Between 1918 and 1939, this representation no longer allowed preparations for a new conflict. Relying on Alain and Giraudoux, the author explains how the will to save a certain honor of victorious war led to sacrifice honor at the time of the defeat of 1940.