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Alors que la Première Guerre mondiale fait encore rage, le banquier et philanthrope Albert Kahn, crée, en 1916, le Comité national d’études sociales et politiques (CNESP). Composé d’intellectuels français, le CNESP se réunit une fois par semaine, et ce, jusqu’en 1931, afin de discuter des plus chauds sujets de l’heure. Résolument tourné vers l’international, ce comité, bien que les membres soient exclusivement Français, reçoit un nombre important de conférenciers étrangers et s’intéresse grandement à ce qui se passe à l’extérieur des frontières de la France. Ce mémoire, qui s’inscrit dans les courants de l’histoire internationale et l’histoire intellectuelle, met l’accent sur cet intérêt pour les sujets internationaux et étudie la conception que se fait le CNESP de l’internationalisme durant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres. L’analyse des procès-verbaux des rencontres révèle que le comité a une vision de l’international qui s’exprime sur deux niveaux. D’abord, il entrevoit l’international comme quelque chose d’objectif : le système international doit être organisé selon les principes de paix par le droit et les problèmes à caractère global doivent être solutionnés selon les méthodes objectives de la science. Ensuite, l’étude des considérations subjectives derrière de telles prétentions d’objectivité dévoile une conception de l’international qui est influencée par une forte croyance en l’universalisme des valeurs françaises. La conception de l’international génère donc une dynamique d’exclusion qui s’exprime plus particulièrement à travers un langage métaphorique lié à la famille. / During the heat of the Great War, Albert Kahn, banker and philanthropist, founded the Comité national d’études sociales et politiques (CNESP). Bringing together members of the French elite, the CNESP held meetings every week until 1931, to hold intellectual discussions about current affairs. Even though the members were exclusively French, the committee invited a considerable number of international speakers. This thesis, whose fields of research are linked to those of intellectual history and international history, places emphasis on this committee’s interest in international topics and studies its conceptualization of internationalism during the interwar period. This survey of the CNESP’s meetings reveals that the committee had a vision of internationalism that was expressed on two different levels. First, the committee understood the international as an objective structure: the international system had to be organized around principles of law and international problems had to be resolved by the objective methods of science. Second, study of the subjective considerations behind those pretentions of objectivity reveals that the conceptualisation of internationalism was influenced by a strong belief in the universalism of French values. This conceptualisation of internationalism therefore implies dynamics of exclusion that are expressed more particularly through a metaphoric discourse linked to the family.

This thesis deals with the existence of the Association of Czechoslovak Lawyers Všehrd in the interwar period. The work follows the institutional history of the league and the world of ideas of its members. It deals with the requirements and expectations of the management association in the background of social issues and nationalist sentiments, which tended association especially in the thirties of the 20th century. The work relies on federal sources provenance and representative selection of newspaper articles. The aim is to describe the functioning of the inter-war fraternity as well as outline the trends emerging in the student movement of the First Republic. Juridical Association as the second oldest and largest Czech student association will serve as a suitable representative of these organizations. Work is also interested in the relationship Czech law students to the state, foreign nationals, other student's associations and the Czechoslovak Germans. On the basis of the dispute between the federal leadership and the opposition the work monitors political tendencies within the student movement. This thesis aims to contribute to complete the picture of the interwar Czechoslovak society.

This dissertation deals with pawning primarily from the perspective of the pawners. It utilises two samples from the ledgers of a municipal pawnshop in Borås in western Sweden, from 1922/23 and 1932/33. Its aim is to deal with the relation between the material and financial side of pawning as well as the causes behind pawning. One of the results of the study is that most pawn loans were very small, which means that pawning probably was connected to income insufficiency. It showed that weekly repeated pawning, which has been proposed in previous research as a common pattern, was nearly non-existent. Instead, most pawners were occasional customers at the pawnshop. It was shown that certain collateral (such as clothes and decorative objects) affected the length of the redemption time. This meant that pawners had the ability to redeem a pledge quickly – if they had a need for the item. However, at the same time, pawns could remain for a long time in the pawnshop, which indicates that repaying the loan was difficult for the pawner. Otherwise, they should have acted to minimise the interest they had to pay for the loan. For the pawner the payment of the loan likely meant foregoing much needed consumption in the present. According to this study, variability of income was a more important cause for pawning than the size of income. Pawn loans likely countered short-term variation in income or expenditures. However, it could not help against long-term unemployment. The study also investigated if pawning was affected by the life cycle, but found no clear relationship. The study showed that most of the customers at the pawnshop were male, which goes against most of the previous research. Another of the study’s result was that women’s pawning, but not men’s pawning, was connected to the presence of children in the household, and women had also more children than men did. Having many children had also an effect on women’s pawning, but not on men’s. The study considers that it seems like women pawned more due to family needs than men did.

Avec leur entrée en guerre en 1917, les États-Unis s’imposent rapidement comme la principale force économique, industrielle et guerrière au monde. Avec les soldats, ce sont aussi la musique américaine (le rag-time puis le jazz), le cinéma (Charlot en tête, et bientôt les films noirs), ses légendes, ses propres mythes. Alors que la France traverse une crise de civilisation, parler des États-Unis ne saurait être anodin. Les discours sur les États-Unis se chargent alors d’enjeux existentiels, idéologiques mais aussi esthétiques. Aux inquiétudes d’époque qui traversent l’abondante production littéraire sur l’Amérique, se mêlent les sentiments personnels des auteurs. Se font entendre une pluralité de voix et de points de vue qui mettent sérieusement à mal l’idée reçue d’une France unaniment « antiaméricaine ». Rares sont les auteurs qui ne s’expriment pas à un moment ou un autre sur les États-Unis, qu’ils y voient la préfiguration de la vie future, ou l’avant-garde de la décadence, un marqueur de modernité ou l’occasion d’amitiés transatlantiques, un contre-modèle politique ou l’occasion d’une utopie démocratique… Ainsi a lieu l’avènement d’un foisonnant imaginaire français des États-Unis, bien loin d’un prétendu discours monologique, qui est l’occasion d’un formidable élargissement de l’horizon des écrivains, ou au contraire d’un repli européen ou national, parfois même nationaliste. Notre thèse se propose donc de rendre compte de la position centrale des États-Unis dans l’existence et la réflexion des écrivains français de l’entre-deux-guerres à travers les multiples formes de résonances et de déflagrations du mot et de la chose « Amérique » dans leur vie imaginative. On aura compris qu’il n’est pas nécessaire, pour parler d’Amérique, d’avoir traversé l’Atlantique. Les États-Unis apparaissent comme un terrain propice à la fiction entendue dans le sens large de mythologies, fantasmes, clichés, représentations symboliques… Il faudra donc débusquer le stéréotype, le cliché, la projection d’un imaginaire personnel dans les œuvres, sans en sous-estimer la pertinence. Les textes littéraires évoluant dans un rapport ambigu à la réalité, il est possible que la ligne de partage traditionnelle entre le vrai et le faux ne soit pas des plus adéquates. Car il est vrai que l’Amérique des textes semble bien souvent être celle des fantasmes (personnels ou collectifs), ceci n’excluant d’ailleurs pas, par moments, le pressentiment d’une vérité ou la compréhension. La crise succédant au 11 septembre est le moment propice pour restituer dans sa complexité l’histoire plurielle d’un regard sur l’autre, au-delà de l’aversion et de la fascination trop souvent présentées comme les deux seules voies empruntées par les écrivains français / When they entered World War I in 1917, the USA rapidly established themselves as the main economic, industrial and military power in the world. Alongside the soldiers, it was also about American music (rag-time and jazz), cinema (the Tramp to begin with and very soon the film noir), legends and their own myths. While France was undergoing a civilisation crisis, talking about the USA could not be insignificant. Talks about the USA became then full of existential, ideological, but also aesthetic stakes. On the top of the worries of the time going through the abundant literary production about America, came the personal feelings of the authors.The many voices and points of view that could be heard seriously undermined the common idea of France being completely anti-American. The authors not talking at some point or another about the USA were very rare, whether they saw in it the foresight of a future life, the avant-garde of decadence, a landmark of modernity or the opportunity for Franco-American friendship, a countermodel in politics or the occasion to see in it a democratic utopia... It was hence the coming of age of a proliferating French imaginary about the USA, quite far from a monological speech which consisted in an amazing broadening of the writer's horizon, or, on the contrary, in a European withdrawal, sometimes even nationalist. Our thesis offers then to account for the central position of the USA in the being and reflection of French writers of the interwar period through the multiple shapes of resonance and deflagration of the word and the thing « America » in their imaginary life.We have understood by now that it is not necessary, in order to talk about America, to have actually crossed the atlantic. The USA appear as a favorable place to foster fiction-in its broad meaning encompassing mythology, fantasy, clichés, symbolic representations… Our job will be then to hunt down the stereotypes, clichés, the personal projection of the imagination in the works without underestimating its relevance. Since the literary texts evolve with an amibiguous relationship with reality, it is possible that the traditional division between true and false may not be adequate. It is true indeed that the « America » in the texts seems quite often to be the product of fantasies (personal or collective), it does not however exclude, sometimes, the feeling of a truth or understanding. The post 9/11 crisis is the right time to re-establish, within its full complexity, the plural history of a look on the other, beyond the avertion or fascination so often introduced as the only two paths taken by the French writers.

Charles Masson (1894-1971) est un des principaux architectes de l’entre-deux-guerres à Nancy. Cette période de l’histoire de l’architecture à Nancy et en Lorraine est encore en cours d’étude. Adoptant la forme classique d’une monographie d’architecte, cette thèse y apporte sa contribution mais en tentant d’élargir l’étude par la connaissance des commanditaires. Elle s’attache d’abord à établir la biographie de cet architecte né en Moselle annexée et dont la formation en Allemagne lui donne un profil singulier. Le corpus des édifices bâtis par Masson au nombre de 57 a été défini, étudié et réuni dans un catalogue qui constitue le troisième volume de la thèse. Géographiquement, ils se trouvent principalement à Nancy et, pour presque la moitié d’entre eux, dans le fameux Parc de Saurupt, haut lieu de l’architecture Art nouveau et où Masson s’est fortement investi, mais du point de vue de leur statut, ils ne comptent que des villas ou des maisons et des immeubles, mais aucun bâtiment public. Masson présente la particularité rare de n’avoir travaillé à Nancy que pour l’architecture domestique. Les 41 commanditaires identifiés sont donc tous des particuliers, à l’origine et au profil social variés, appartenant généralement à la bourgeoisie fortunée. La synthèse se penche non seulement sur la vie et les constructions de Masson, mais tente aussi de saisir les relations entre l’architecte et ses clients, question qui jusqu’ici, pour ce qui concerne l’architecture de l’entre-deux-guerres, n’a pas été traitée sérieusement ni systématiquement. C’est un des intérêts de cette thèse de tenter d’aborder de front la question de la clientèle de l’architecte Masson. Pour cela, l’apport des archives s’avère essentiel mais, si la très grande majorité des plans dressés par Masson a été conservée, aucune correspondance n’a été retrouvée. On y a suppléé en étudiant finement le profil social de chaque commanditaire et en examinant les plans et l’architecture de chaque édifice pour en identifier les partis pris et deviner les souhaits des clients : leur rêve de villa ou leur désir de profiter des bonnes affaires dans l’immobilier. Cette étude révèle donc un architecte nancéien méconnu malgré l’importance de son œuvre et se veut une contribution à la connaissance de l’architecture domestique et de la clientèle des architectes de l’entre-deux-guerres / Charles Masson (1894-1971) was one of the leading architects of the interwar period in Nancy. People are still studying the effects of this historical and architectural period in Nancy and Lorraine. Adopting the classic form of an architectural monograph, this thesis both contributes to these studies and tries to broaden the study by mentioning the patrons. First of all, it focuses on the life of this architect, born in Moselle when Moselle was a part of Germany and whose German upbringing gives his work a unique character. Masson's oeuvre consists of 57 buildings, which have all been defined, studied, and collected together in a catalog, which constitutes the third volume of this thesis. Geographically, they are primarily located in Nancy and almost half of them are located in the famous Parc de Saurupt, the Mecca of Art Nouveau architecture and where Masson invested a lot of his time and effort, but when it comes to the types of buildings, he only designed villas, houses, and apartments. There are no public buildings in his work. Masson is unique in having only worked on residential architecture in Nancy. The 41 identified patrons are therefore all individuals, who all come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, generally belonging to the wealthy bourgeoisie. This thesis not only looks at the life and work of Masson, but also attempts to understand the relationship between the architect and his clients, an issue which up to now, as far as the architecture of the interwar period is concerned, has not been treated seriously or systematically. It is one of the primary goals of this thesis to try to address the nature of Masson's clientele head-on. For this, the archives have proven essential, but no correspondence has yet been found despite the vast majority of the plans drawn up by Masson having been preserved. We supplemented this by carefully studying the social profile of each patron and by examining the plans and architecture of each building. We were able to identify their biases and estimate the client’s wishes, whether they dreamed of owning a luxury villa or were looking for a bargain property. This study has revealed an unknown architect from Nancy, who despite the importance of his work, has helped contribute to the knowledge of the domestic architecture and the clientele of the architects of the interwar period

The present licentiate thesis analyses developments in Swedish marine insurance during the interwar period, including both direct marine insurance and marine reinsurance. This is done in order to provide insights on how companies of a highly internationalised and vulnerable line of insurance were affected by and responded to new risks during a period of far-reaching international financial and economic crises. Finally, the consequences of new risks and strategies are assessed. This thesis argues that during the interwar period Swedish maritime trade and Swedish marine insurance greatly depended on each other for marine insurance cover and marine insurance premium incomes. The business results in Swedish marine insurance partly depended on the development of Swedish trade. These business results were also vulnerable to currency risks. Swedish marine insurers faced no similar trade or currency risks during the two decades preceding World War I, and accordingly the returns on Swedish marine insurance were lower during the interwar period than during the last two pre-war decades. These factors probably bore their most severe consequences during the early 1920s when Swedish marine insurance on average induced losses to insurers. The remaining years of the period constituted a long-run recovery, and the Great Depression of the early 1930s caused no difficulties of the same order. This thesis also indicates that interwar Swedish marine insurers responded to new risks by increasing the level of cession to reinsurers. Another response was to increase the level of differentiation among insurance lines. This thesis describes the consequences of new risks and strategies in interwar Swedish marine insurance, focusing on the development of the Swedish marine insurance market structure and on the business results of Swedish marine insurers. Though this market shrunk and grew excessively, the relative importance of stock and mutual insurers showed only minor fluctuations. The importance of specialised marine reinsurance companies, however, fluctuated greatly. Also, cooperation between interwar marine insurers and the formation of insurance groups set new trends of concentration for the future. Finally, even though Swedish marine insurance during some years induced losses the Swedish marine insurers never experienced true losses on their total businesses.

The main aim of the diploma thesis is to analyse selected women's magazines which were published between the years 1918-1938. The analysis of chosen articles published in selected magazines is based on the heuristics and interpretation. First part of the thesis is dedicated to description of the historical and cultural context of the interwar period, the social status of women in the society of First Czechoslovak Republic and to the development of women's emancipation. Second part of the thesis analyses the table of contents of chosen magazines with taking the cultural and social acquisition into the consideration.

La présente étude se focalise sur un des mythes cosmogoniques au fondement de la culture européenne. Mythe de la création et de l’anthropogenèse, le récit biblique du premier couple joue un rôle essentiel pour la compréhension et l’interprétation des rapports entre l’homme et la femme. L’union indissoluble, qui lie Adam et Ève, subit une métamorphose à la suite du péché originel afin de se réhabiliter en tant qu’unité au nom de la famille. Les littératures française, roumaine et bulgare représentent l’objet de l’analyse et nous nous intéressons aux caractéristiques de leur développement pendant la période de l’entre-deux-guerres. Le genre du roman se situe au centre de cette analyse comparative. Il se trouve ainsi saisi au sommet de son épanouissement, il mêle des techniques hétérogènes et traduit l’intérêt renouvelé des écrivains pour des thèmes métaphysiques. Notre entreprise s’appuie sur le modèle du mythe biblique composé de trois phases – création, chute, rédemption – modèle dont l’homme et la femme sont les protagonistes et qui coïncide avec la transition opérée par Adam et Ève du couple à la famille. Nous avons retenu deux représentants de chaque littérature, qui s’insèrent dans les différents courants de pensée de cette époque. Ce sont François Mauriac et Jean Giraudoux (représentants de la littérature française), Liviu Rebreanu et Mircea Eliade (représentants de la littérature roumaine), Tchavdar Moutafov et Anna Kamenova (représentants de la littérature bulgare). La première question, qui se pose devant la lecture comparative de leurs œuvres, concerne les dimensions actuelles, modernes, de l’espace paradisiaque – l’Éden du bonheur absolu et de la plénitude. Des conditions, qui préparent la rupture de la famille éventuelle, se manifestent dès le développement de ce thème. Les écrivains décrivent une nouvelle Ève trouvant difficilement sa place au milieu des conceptions et des attentes traditionnelles. L’étape suivante interroge l’attitude envers les modèles hérités des parents et les caractéristiques de l’image féminine notamment, qui trouble à ce point son créateur – l’auteur. De cette manière, nous nous rapprochons de la réalisation du couple en tant que famille. Nous étudions le discours contemporain sur la position de la famille dans le monde environnant et sur la réconciliation entre les libertés individuelles et la vie ensemble – des thèmes au centre du roman moderne. / The present study focuses on one of the cosmogonic myths аt the heart of European culture. The myth about creation and anthropogenesis, the biblical story of the first couple, plays a fundamental role in understanding and interpreting the relationship between the man and the woman. The inseparable alliance that binds Adam and Eve undergoes a metamorphosis after the Original sin in order to be later restored as a full-fledged unity in the name of the family. The subject of comparison are the French, the Romanian and the Bulgarian literature and we are interested in their development characteristics between the two World Wars. The focal point in the comparative analysis is the novel genre, which is in a stage of development in all three literatures. The genre combines heterogeneous techniques, and is a territory for authors’ renewed interest in metaphysical themes. In this endeavour, adherence to the established structure of the biblical myth as combining three phases is sustained – creation, fall and redemption phases – whose protagonists are the man and the woman, and which coincide with the transition of Adam and Eve from a couple to a family. Two representatives from each of the three regional literatures, belonging to different literary movements during this period, are taken as examples. These are François Mauriac and Jean Giraudoux (representatives of French literature), Liviu Rebreanu and Mircea Eliade (representatives of Romanian literature), Tchavdar Moutafov and Anna Kamenova (representatives of Bulgarian literature). The first question posed in the comparative reading of their works concerns the modern, contemporary dimensions of paradise – the Eden of absolute happiness and completeness. The prerequisites for the break as a transition into a family unit are discernible within this theme. The writers describe a new Eve that hardly fits the traditional perceptions and assumptions for her gender. The next stage of the critical reading examines the attitude towards inherited parental models and the characteristics of the female image as a primary concern to its creator – the author. Thus, a gradual approach towards the realization of the last step in the development of the couple, namely, its conversion to a family unit, is achieved. The present analysis focuses on articulating contemporary discourse on the place of the family unit in the surrounding world and on the reconciliation between individual freedoms and life in a community as central themes of the modern novel.

La création artistique de l’entre-deux-guerres en France est transformée par l’internationalisation du marché de l’art, la vitalité des avant-gardes et la diffusion sans précédent des revues d’art. La galerie d’art, par l’action de galeristes engagés et professionnels, s’impose alors comme un lieu central du marché de l’art moderne. Vouée au commerce des œuvres, elle se dote d’une identité nouvelle en faisant de son espace un lieu de socialisation et de débats intellectuels. Cette conjoncture explique en partie la naissance d’un nouveau mode de communication de la galerie d’art : la revue de galerie. Cet outil de promotion a pour principale mission de diffuser l’actualité des expositions et des artistes liés à la galerie. Mais il cherche également à être une tribune ouverte, un lieu d’expression et de dialogues où se rencontrent théories artistiques et synthèses du marché de l’art contemporain, règlements de comptes et pamphlets, littérature et poésie. Au-delà de sa dimension promotionnelle, la revue de galerie, objet sociologique, tisse des liens entre les différents acteurs d’un même cercle socio-culturel. Les principales revues de galerie de l’entre-deux-guerres (Les Arts à Paris, 1918-1935 ; le Bulletin de la vie artistique, 1919-1926 ; le Bulletin de la galerie B. Weill, 1923-1935 ; le Bulletin de l’Effort moderne, 1924-1927) mettent ainsi en place des modèles éditoriaux durables, qui perdureront tout au long du XXe siècle. Il s’agit d’un phénomène culturel international, de sorte que le contexte parisien ne peut être compris que par comparaison, notamment avec celui des Etats-Unis (revue 291), de la Belgique (Le Centaure) ou de l’Allemagne (Der Querschnitt), qui développent leurs propres spécificités. / Art production in France is changed in the interwar years by the globalization of the art market, the vitality of the avant-gardes and the unprecedented diffusion of art periodicals. The art gallery, through the actions of socially and politically committed art dealers, is becoming a major place for the modern art market. Dedicated to the trade of artworks, it acquires a new identity by encouraging socialization and intellectual debates. This context creates new communication means for art galleries: the art gallery magazine. As a promotion tool, the main mission of the periodical is to spread news about exhibitions and artists related to the gallery. Sustained by the ideals of their editors, they offer an open platform, an utopian space of free speech and dialogue, where art theories and contemporary art market analysis, score settling and satirical tracts, literature and poetry meet. Beyond its promotional function, the art gallery magazine, as a sociological object, also establishes links between the various players of a social and cultural group. The main gallery magazines of the 20th Century (Les Arts à Paris, 1918-1935; le Bulletin de la vie artistique, 1919-1926; le Bulletin de la galerie B. Weill, 1923-1935; le Bulletin de l’Effort moderne, 1924-1927) invent lasting editorial references that will last throughout the 20th century. Operating in Paris, art gallery magazines fall within an international cultural context, as demonstrated by the presence of such magazines in the United States (291), Belgium (Le Centaure) or Germany (Der Querschnitt), all developing their own specificities.