Memory gaps: Maurice Halbwachs, memory and the Great War *.

When single reads Maurice Halbwachs's Les Cadres sociaux de la memoire, it is noticeable that the sociologist-philosopher has almost completely obliterated from his thinkings the war he has just lived [i]or[/i] part of to the other At the very time when an arsenal of unprecedent memories born of the effects of the Great War was being lay into place, here was a man theorizing the notion of collective memory while simultaneously forgetting, in the numerous examples punctuating his work upon the subject, to think about the weight of the novel past including his own personal past. This article aims to