Sur les traces de John MacCrae, ou l’inscription dans l’espace public du souvenir d’un combattant de 1914-1918
John MacCrae (1872-1918) enlisted in the Canadian Army Medical Corps as a physician in 1914. He was indirectly responsible for the decision by Commonwealth countries in 1921 to adopt the poppy as a symbol to commemorate the fallen of the Great War. He was buried in Wimereux, a small town in northern...
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Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Revue LISA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/8789 |