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Remi Fabre, « Un exemple de pacifisme juridique : Théodore Ruyssen et le mouvement « la paix par le droit » (1884-1950) », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10.3406/xxs.1993.2716
An example of legal pacifism. Théodore Ruyssen and the Peace Through Law movement, 1884-1950, Rémi Fabre. Supported by the values of 19th century legal ideology, the Peace Through Law movement was one of the major components of French pacifism in the early 20th century. A product of the Protestant and Republican bourgeoisie, it embodied a "juripacifism" which thought its highest degree of expression was Wilsonianism and the League of Nations, and had to face the ambiguous debates of the 1930s and the painful choices following the Munich conference. Its history makes it possible to qualify some rapid approximations and perhaps to frame better the question of the pacifists' position in a Europe torn by the tensions of mass societies.