摘要

Cette contribution se propose d*谷tudier la culture de guerre dans la France de la Premi豕re Guerre mondiale en isolant un groupe de combattants d*apr豕s sa profession civile et sa culture universitaire. Cette approche 角 une 谷chelle interm谷diaire conduit 角 des observations plus g谷n谷rales que l*analyse d* uvres de la litt谷rature de tranch谷e, mais plus sp谷cifiques que la prise en compte d*un large contingent d*officiers. Elle permet d*observer de quelles mani豕res les mots d*ordre et les imp谷ratifs de la guerre, tels que tuer ou 那tres tu谷s, sont compris et assum谷s par les combattants, qui s*en servent d*instruments performatifs pour forger leurs raisons de tenir . 谷tudier la culture de guerre consiste ici 角 discerner les relations complexes entre l*exp谷rience du feu et la culture civile des soldats. Pour 那tre plus pr谷cis, ce travail explique comment le modeste contingent des professeurs de l*enseignement secondaire (un peu plus de 500 hommes, parmi lesquels Marc Bloch, Jules Isaac, Charles Delvert, et d*autres anciens 谷l豕ves de l*谷cole Normale Sup谷rieure) ont employ谷 leurs aptitudes intellectuelles et leurs r谷f谷rences culturelles pour faire face au conflit, en acceptant et en rejetant tout autant les principes. This contribution aims to study War Culture in First World War France on the basis of a group of soldiers selected according to their civil profession and common academic background. This medium-scale approach leads to more general observations than the analysis of trench literature would, but it is more accurate than studying a large group of officers. This approach also makes it possible for me to explore how war orders and imperatives, such as killing or being killed, are understood and embraced by soldiers, who use them as performative tools contributing to build up their own reasons to ※hold out§. Studying ※War culture§ thus means making sense of the complex relationships between the experience of fire and the civil culture of soldiers. More precisely, this paper explains how secondary school teachers (a contingent composed of little more than 500 men, among whom Marc Bloch, Jules Isaac, Charles Delvert and other former students of the Ecole Normale Sup谷rieure) have employed their intellectual skills and cultural references to cope with the conflict, both accepting and rejecting some of its principles. Esta contribuci車n estudia la cultura de guerra en Francia durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, escogiendo un grupo de soldados seg迆n su profesi車n civil y su cultura universitaria. Este enfoque en una escala intermediaria conduce a observaciones

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