Le sens des études, le sens d'une vie

Born in 1918 into a German mining family from Lorraine, Marie Catherine Meyer recalls the family, local and school environment that led her to become a teacher, and later a professor, from the aftermath of the First World War to the Second. Written at the end of the last century, the precision of these recollections is exceptional, based in particular on the rich archives, both school and personal, that the author herself had kept. These also enabled a historian to write an introduction highlighting the meaning that the child, teenager and then young girl gave to her studies, in the social, cultural and political context of Lorraine and France at the time.