Maïté Recasens

Thesis in history

Ongoing

Between Religious Wars and Peace: Commemorations of Deliverances and Reductions in the towns of the Midi in the modern era (16th-French Revolution) under the supervision of Valerie Sottocasa

Thesis project

This thesis examines the phenomenon of rupture in the production of memories during the French Revolution in the South of France. The trauma of the Wars of Religion structured the identities of the various Protestant and Catholic towns in this region. The Revolution completely remade society to create a new man, whose political, religious and memory values had to be consistent with the revolutionary project. The revolutionary authorities condemned memory to oblivion. Although "memory in reserve", forgetting does not mean destroying memories. Memory is the foundation of collective identities, and the injunction to forget allows them to be reformulated.