Béatrice Richard

Béatrice Richard. « Quelle guerre raconter ? Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron. »In her article “Quelle guerre raconter ? Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron”.

Béatrice Richard revisits the rapport that French Canada had with the Great War through the study of the testimony of journalist Paul Caron, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914. Adopting a new historiographical perspective, firmly rooted in theory, soundly set in the context of the period, based on solid research and written in elegant prose, this study not only contributes to the historiography of French Canadians’ correlation to the First World War, but also more generally to the development of war chronicles as sources for cultural history.