La chaloupe à quille en Nouvelle-France : une embarcation et son milieu

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

L'abolition de la peine de mort en France (1972-1981) : le débat introuvable ?

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Les couturières en Nouvelle-France : leur contribution socioéconomique à une société coloniale d'Ancien Régime

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La question de l'indépendance de l'Autriche pour la France et la Grande-Bretagne durant l'entre-deux-guerres

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Les hôpitaux militaires d'instruction et le développement de l'enseignement clinique en France au cours de l'Ancien Régime, de la Révolution et du Premier Empire

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Les relations scientifiques entre la France et le Japon à travers l'avènement de la bactériologie par la tuberculose et le BCG (1898-1955)

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Jeux de pouvoir : des coulisses à l'avant-scène : les reines de France Marie de Médicis et Anne d'Autriche

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Démographie, histoire familiale et systèmes de valeurs de grands-parents en France

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Le parcours matrimonial et professionnel vers le premier enfant : une comparaison des régimes providentiels de Suède, d'Italie et de France

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Analyse lexicale de l'histoire de la Nouvelle-France de Marc Lescarbot

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Étude de phonologie diachronique des voyelles postérieures [u] et [o] du parler de la commune de Gaye à la frontière de l'Île-de-France et de la Champagne

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Soin des corps, soin des âmes : genre et pouvoirs dans les hôpitaux de France et de Nouvelle-France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Thèse réalisée en cotutelle avec l'université Clermont 2 (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

Pippi Longstocking, juvenile delinquent? Hachette, self-censorship and the moral reconstruction of postwar France

This paper looks at the blockages to the publication of children’s literature caused by the intellectual climate of the postwar era, through a case study of the editorial policy of Hachette, the largest publisher for children at this time. This period witnessed heightened tensions surrounding the social and humanitarian responsibilities of literature. Writers were blamed for having created a culture of defeatism, and collaborationist authors were punished harshly in the purges. In the case of children’s literature, the discourse on responsibility was made more urgent by the assumption that children were easily influenced by their reading material, and by the centrality of the young to the discourse on the moral reconstruction of France. As the politician and education reformer Gustave Monod put it: “penser l’avenir, c’est penser le sort des enfants et de la jeunesse.” These concerns led to the expansion of associations and publications dedicated to protecting children and promoting “good” reading matter for them, and, famously, to the 1949 law regulating publications for children, which banned the depiction of crime, debauchery and violence that might demoralise young readers. Using the testimonials of former employees, along with readers’ reports and editorial correspondence preserved in the Hachette archives, this paper will examine how individual editorial decisions and self-censorship strategies were shaped by the 1949 law with its attendant discourse of moral panic on children’s reading, and how national concerns for future citizens were balanced with commercial imperatives.

Post-War Writers' Memoirs in Romania and France: A Study of Mentalities

Ms. Net wanted to find out if there was what she terms a "collective identity of the intelligentsia" of Romania and France between 1945 and 1989. She conducted her research on a corpus of memoirs from both cultures, and in the process, uncovered some fundamental differences, which she presented in the form of a 178 page manuscript in English, and also on disc. One of the most basic appears to be that French memorialists rarely deal with social, historical and political changes and events. Ms. Net regards these writers as shutting their eyes to reality, and attempting to preserve the past. They are interested in their personal history, and in the genesis of their own works. According to Ms. Net, this tendency is so marked that she doubts whether 20th century French writers share the dominant mentalities of their times. In her opinion all this points to the fact that the French intelligentsia are "trying hard to preserve their cultural hegemony" a task which she maintains has always been an essential aspect of the identity of the French intellectual. In Romania, of course, the situation was very different. To take an example: many Romanian memoirs speak about the campaigns to improve the lot of women, while at the same time recognising and analysing the way that this was simply a "cover" for promoting the most incompetent people, men and women alike. They also express frustration at the way access to information was blocked due to the media being government controlled. Ms. Net concludes, eventually, that, in general, intellectuals, more than any other group in society, ensure the continuity of the dominant mentalities in a given cultural space. Consequently, she feels, we must revise the idea - or myth as she calls it - that intellectuals represent the avant-garde in a given society. Specifically, she concludes that petty bourgeois, patriarchal and elitist mentalities are still prevalent in France. The truth is, she reflects, that intellectuals are always true to their nature, no mater when and where they are living.