At the crossroads of cultural history and military history, this book offers several case studies as well as general reflections on the memory of battles as it is inscribed, in particular, in the places where they happened.

First book in French on the history of banking supervision and internal control, an essential tool of banking regulation.

Revolutions are also conducted by words. Since the end of the 18th century, in France, as in Europe and Latin America, reinterpreting the political and social order is a way of condemning and rejecting the current system, but also to be inspired and claim historical precedents. Thus, revolutions appear as unique moments of rethinking the past.

As part of the dynamics of the centenary of the First World War, this book analyzes the birth of the military cinematographic services that hatched everywhere in the world when, at the heart of the conflict, the cinema, then quite a recent medium, committed itself to the service of States and/or the armies.