1993
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Mariana Sauber, « Traces fragiles. Les plaques commémoratives dans les rues de Paris », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1993.279168
Brittle Artifacts : Commemorative Plaques on the Streets of Paris. There are great many plaques commemorating such events as World War2, the Resistance, the deportation of Jews and the fights for Liberation, particulary in Paris. Some unauthorized were spontaneously put up immediately after the war. Others resulted from well-documented administrative process. As many of these brittle artifacts are threatened to disappear the author reminds us of their archival value as well as their emotional charge.