Émile Combes, vulgarisation et politique de la Préhistoire
Abstracts
Émile Combes, symbol of the radical secularity and the anticlerical fight during the Third Républic took part in the popularization of the new science, Prehistory. Long before his political success, as doctor in the small town of Pons, towards 1869, he participated to the creation of prehistory in Charente-Inférieure. Émile Combes collects flints, publishes articles on the “Stone Age” and uses his scientist popularization conferences in his anticlerical action. Became an important personality of his department, he defends a prehistoric research used by secular primary school teachers against conservative learned societies. However his national commitment will keep him away from his passion for antedeluvian times.
References
Bibliographical reference
Jean-Bernard Vaultier, “Émile Combes, vulgarisation et politique de la Préhistoire”, Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, 113-2 | 2006, 7-28.
Electronic reference
Jean-Bernard Vaultier, “Émile Combes, vulgarisation et politique de la Préhistoire”, Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest [Online], 113-2 | 2006, Online since 30 June 2008, connection on 19 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abpo/815; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abpo.815
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