Fiche du document
1986
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Sujets proches
Frenchmen (French people)Citer ce document
Philippe Burrin, « Poings levés et bras tendus. la contagion des symboles au temps du front populaire », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10.3406/xxs.1986.1481
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Clenched fists and outstretched arms. The contagion of symbols at the time of the Popular Front, Philippe Burrin. The spectacular success of a gesture such as the raised fist, the staging of demonstrations and grandiose celebrations, the massive reappropriation of the national revolutionary tradition : this symbolic and ritual effervescence gives a distinct and virtually unanalyzed flavor to the period 1934-1936. Such an analysis, which enriches our knowledge of the history of the Popular Front and French anti-fascism, requires a preliminary study of the Marxist attitude toward political symbolism to which the two French working-class parties adhered. It is also necessary to take a look at Germany, in a way the experimental laboratory for the phenomenon. Thus in perspective, the symbolic tide which carried away the French left becomes intelligible and meaningful.