Saint-Junien début de siècle, à travers trois récits distincts

• Main Author: Vincent Brousse
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire 2008-11-01
• Series: Les Dossiers du GRIHL
• Subjects: limousin; anarchism; catholics; privacy; glover; industry
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/2203

This paper is based on three different stories, written over 60 years, and all three related to a very short period of the xxth-century-history of Saint-Junien, an industrial town in Limousin. Three different points of view are compared : fromSimon Delort, a priest ; from Georges Gaudy an Action-Française militant, and from Jean Bourgoin, an anarchist militant.We aim at tackling the historical presentation of the town, its memorial construction, some of its first-rank actors, and the rising up of a new society where the Libertarians played the first part for a very short time. This paper is also the occasion to understand how Saint-Junien has remained a Communist town for 87 years and is still named « the red town ».