Remembrance Gallery

The documents presented below are linked to the articles accessible here.

To the students who became soldiers, who went to the front and died for their country, the law faculties intended to pay tribute. The deans, on behalf of their institution, did memorial work, including the writing of Livres d’Or and the erection of memorials. Despite a common intention, the achievements were diverse. These initiatives were long, running until the mid-1920s, difficult because of the collection of information and sometimes unfinished compared to the initial ambitions.

 

Tributes and ceremonies

 

 

War memorials

 



Le souvenir. Monsieur Gaston Doumergue, Président de la République, préside une cérémonie commémorative en l’honneur des morts de la Faculté de Droit à Paris [Remembrance. M. Gaston Doumergue, President of the Republic, presides over a commemorative ceremony in honor of the dead of the Paris Faculty of Law], Journal Gaumont Actualités, 15 mars 1925.
Source Gaumont Pathé Archives, référence 2512GJ 00002. 

The ceremony at the Paris Faculty of Law took place on March 15, 1925, presided over by François-Albert, Minister of Public Education and Fine Arts, and attended by Gaston Doumergue, President of the Republic.

 



Le monument aux morts de l’Association générale des étudiants de Paris est transporté dans la cour de la faculté de Droit [The monument to the dead of the General Association of Students of Paris is moved to the courtyard of the Faculty of Law], Actualités Pathé, 12 décembre 1934.
Source Gaumont Pathé Archives, référence RO 33 4. 

This video shows the transfer of the monument of the General Association of Students of Paris to the Faculty of Law.

 

Livres d’Or