1991/01/01 by Sandi E. Cooper
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #French Historical and Cultural Studies #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #European Political History Analysis
paper · doi:10.2307/286462
In recent years, among the nations constructing the new European community, scholars and the general public in France have demonstrated less interest in peace movements, present and past, than their neighbors.' Ironically, a century ago, the most sophisticated and vigorous peace movement on the continent was in France. Many of its members would welcome the institutions planned for 1992 as their ideas whose time had come. In contrast, the German movement, considerably smaller and far less influential in membership and impact in Wilhelmian Germany, has elicited greater scholarly interest and serious examination in the last generation.2 Certainly the catastrophes of the twentieth century, particularly the second World War, tainted pacifism in France and reinvented it in Germany. A recent Petit Rob-