La construction d'une référence culturelle allemande en France : genèse et histoire (1750-1914)

The Construction of a German Cultural Reference in France: Genesis and History (1750-1914). Franco-German cultural exchange must be redefined as a specific object of historical research concretized in texts, manuscript documents, and a collective ideological discourse which participates in the construction of a German reference. Many different approaches can be envisioned: the hermeneutic approach is based on stable paradigms; the analysis of conjunctures corrects it in emphasizing the momentary situation of the host culture; and sociological vectors of exchange can often be described in terms of institution analysis. The German reference, as a discourse, invites genetic reconstruction allowing one to update matrix networks and German cultural memory in France.Espagne Michel, Werner Michaël. La construction d'une référence culturelle allemande en France : genèse et histoire (1750-1914). In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 42ᵉ année, N. 4, 1987. pp. 969-992