Issue 4 (45)
| USE OF THE IMAGE OF COSSACK AND THE RUSSIANS IN FRANCE DURING THE FIRST RESTORATION (1814–1815) | |||
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| Year | 2014 | Number | 4(45) |
| Pages | 25-32 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 63.3(2)521.1-686 | BBK | 94(44)«1814» |
| Authors | Hantraye Jacques |
Topic | HISTORY AND HISTORICAL MEMORY |
| Summary | On the basis of a set of documents from the French provincial archives the author reconstructed popular ideas of the late Napoleonic France about the Cossacks and the Russians in general. Materials of one of the criminal cases adjudicated in a court in Normandy in 1814 demonstrated that the possibility of the coming of the troops of Alexander I was scary for the non-combatant population even in locations pretty far removed from the battle fields. This allowed the criminal elements to use the image of a Russian for intimidation of the local provincial elites. This type of manipulations became possible because the French people had very scanty knowledge about the conquerors. The article offered a chance to reconstruct the initial stage of the formation of the French people's collective memory about the Russians of the Napoleonic wars period, particularly of the period when the country was occupied by the allies' armies during 1814–1818. | ||
| Keywords | Image of Cossack in the collective memory of the French, occupation of France in 1814, Russian deserters in France in 1814 | ||
| References |
Bargeton R., Bougard P., Le Clere B., Pinaud P. F. Les préfets du 11 ventôse an VIII au 4 septembre 1870 [The prefects of 11 Ventôse VIII to September 4, 1870]. Paris: Archives nationale, 1981, 422 p. (in French). |
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