Jean-Noël Grandhomme

When did peace begin after the Great War? How were economic activities, social activities and celebrations reconstituted? Using the example of the Ardennes, the only department occupied during the entire war, ravaged in 1918 by the fighting of the liberation, 20 researchers question the return to normalcy.

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The memorial markers of the war and the army. The construction of a space of remembrance in Eastern France.

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A monumental religious building, the cathedral represents a spiritual, heritage, cultural and political symbol. This is why, in times of war, it's confronted with the effects and violence of war.

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Protestantism is generally considered external to Lorraine. However, the geopolitical diversity of the Lorraine area in Early Modern Era, then its tragic partition, make this territory a place of contrasted diffusion of Protestant reforms, in their diversity.

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The Great War strongly marked the western societies of the XXth century until our days, quite particularly Germany and France. However, beyond a common history connected to both world conflicts, the World War I engendered memories at the same time close and different.

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