Paysages en guerre - Paysages de guerre

Throughout history, the landscape has been the front-row spectator of human military conflicts. Transformed by war, it is nonetheless an element to be taken into account in drawing up military strategy. Where today visitors come to contemplate the memory of past events, a few years or decades earlie...

The approach to the landscapes left behind by the First World War is by its very nature multidisciplinary. The collective imagination can easily picture lunar battlefields, ruined villages and trenches several miles long, but history, geography, archaeology, geology, the environmental sciences and t...

The distinctive thing about the natural and urban landscapes transformed by the Second World War is that they are all very different and tell their own unique story of the war: the bombing, the landings, the fighting for liberation, the Resistance, internment, deportation, and so on. This section pr...

After the wars, there soon arose the issue of what was to become of the rural and urban landscapes transformed by fighting and bombing, confronted by mass killing and massacres, or affected by policies of repression and persecution. Should the traces of the past in our surroundings be preserved as t...