France

‘The Republic needs scholars!’ A rapid history of making science public in 20th-century France

Bibliographic Data

ID20043410
AuthorsAnnie Bergeron (0000-0002-3141-7912, Établissement public Campus Condorcet, corresponding author), Andrée Bergeron
Year2020
Pages297-316
Publication date2020-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCommunicating Science (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/cs.2020.13
OpenAlexW3086058407
ISBN9781760463656
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Reading Ouest-Eclair on the 31 May 1937, the readers of the Breton daily newspaper learned about a 'crowd of young folks gaping at the mysterious machines used by modern scholars and at the tremendous machine generating stunning lightnings and artificial thunderstorms' and about their presumed fear in front of such powerful forces that 'meekly obey to the order of a human being' comparatively so small. This lyrical description related to the Paris international exposition Arts et techniques dans la vie moderne [Arts and technics in modern life] and described the first visitors to the Palais de la dcouverte

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