N°2, octobre - novembre 2008

Second Empire

Armées et guerres, Archives

Histoire totale, guerre totale ? Approche historiographique comparée des occupations de 1814-1815 et 1870-1871 dans le département de Seine-et-Oise
Jacques HANTRAYE, Professeur agrégé, docteur en Histoire
RésuméAbstract

The Yvelines departmental archives have a collection dating from the beginning of the Third Republic which is related to the war and occupation of 1870-1871 in the Seine-et-Oise département (which comprised 700 communes). The collection provides an important source for the social and cultural history of that war at the end of the 19th century. The author here presents the work done using this collection and the books published on the subject, both seen in the context of the steady increase in the publication of similar material in France nationwide up to 1914. The questions considered here are the origin and reasons for this documentary inflation and the role played in this process by the increase in the number of authors and readers in the context of the development of reading and writing and the publishing industry. However, the primary concern here is the contemporary importance of the events themselves and the interpretation given to them.

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