Abstract
Antoine Calagué, Between Memory and Politics : Bouvines Revisited Seven Hundred Years Later. The famous battle of Bouvines is in 1914 the object of commemorative ceremonies for its seventh centenary. Various patriotic ceremonies are organized, the most important of which being held in Bouvines. It is the mayor of the village, archetype of the notability, who organizes it. His Catholicism and his royalism can be found at certain levels, but he is forced to make up whith a Republic that has just voted the Church and State Separation Law. The commemoration of the battle is thus the opportunity for a new fight, this time with symbols. The luncheons, the festivals, the shouting consensus, it is not however neutral. Moreover to national stakes are superimposed local stakes with the will to create a patrimony in order to claim the monopoly on the memory of the battle. Finally, these commemorations offer some groups highly committed to producing an extensive literature (press, monographies, essays) the opportunity to indulge in a nationalist reading of the battle. The Germanophobia that is thus kept alive produces cohesion, because, for a whole section of the right the common and unique enemy is the German.
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