Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau (* 1955 ) is a French historian and director of the Center d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron . He is co-director of the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne ( Somme department ).

Together with Jean-Jacques Becker , the director of the Historial , and his daughter Annette Becker , Audoin-Rouzeau is largely responsible for a reassessment of the social background to the First World War . Together with other French, German and English historians, he developed the concept of Consentement patriotique (patriotic consensus) to explain the fact that the European population and troops massively supported the outbreak of the conflict and bore the terrible efforts of the belligerent states without that - with the exception of the mutinies of 1917 - there was protest or rebellion. This concept provoked numerous controversies among historians, especially with Rémy Cazals , who supported the thesis of a coercion exerted by the political and military authorities on the civilian population and especially the soldiers, in order to promote the cohesion of states and armies on the fronts (the Russian Except for the front) during the war. Most recently he dealt with the Rwanda conflict .

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau is the son of the cultural journalist and surrealist Philippe Audoin and brother of the writer Fred Vargas (Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau) and the painter Jo Vargas (Joëlle Audoin-Rouzeau).

Fonts (selection)

• 1870, la France in la guerre. Armand Colin, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-200-37165-9 .
• L'Enfant de l'ennemi (1914-1918). Viol, avortement, infanticide pendant la Grande guerre (= Collection historique ). Aubier, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7007-2268-X .
• with Annette Becker : 14–18, Retrouver la guerre. Gallimard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-07-075284-4 .
• Cinq deuils de guerre. 1914-1918. Noesis, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-911606-83-3 .
• Préfacées et Commentaires in: Un regard sur la Grande Guerre. Photographies inédites du soldat Marcel Felser. Larousse, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-03-505259-9 .
• as editor with Annette Becker, Christian Ingrao and Henry Rousso : La Violence de guerre 1914–1945. Approches comparées des deux conflits mondiaux. Éditions Complexe et al., Brussels et al. 2002, ISBN 2-87027-911-6 .
• as editor with Jean Jacques Becker : Encyclopédie de la Grande Guerre, 1914–1918. Bayard, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-227-13945-5 .
• L'enfant ennemi, l'enfant de l'ennemi, pendant la Grande Guerre. In: La haine des enfants (= penser / rêver. No. 6). Mercure de France, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7152-2535-0 , pp. 35-46.
• Combattre. Une anthropologie historique de la guerre moderne, XIXe – XXIe siècle. Seuil, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-02-097508-7 .
• Une initiation: Rwanda 1994-2016 , Seuil, 2017, ISBN 978-2-02-130851-8 .