Explain and contextualise the evolving difficulties of teachers in France (19^th-21^st centuries).

The Great War tore the Roman Catholic Church: in both camps, it used the same religious references to legitimate the conflict. In the occupied dioceses, the confrontation of soldiers and civilians, churchgoers and priests of opposite nations maintained representations which were forbidding any real dialogue.

The history of the colleges of Ancien Régime is known today well enough. But that do we know ambitions and logic of the parents who send their children to college? What do we know from the point of view of the children?

According to Christian theology, the councils are supposed to be "inspired" or "assisted" by the Holy Spirit, but it is clear that their annals are full of conflicts, dramatic turn of events, maneuvers, as well in the conduct of assemblies as in the writing of records.

Introducing the reader to the latest research into subjects until now studied in other Mediterranean historiographical traditions so as to reassess some aspects of the socio-economic and cultural history of the early modern Mediterranean with reference to Fernand Braudel's legacy.