![]() Their future would be forgotten or rejected. Were doomed to escheatment or disappearance in both material and intangible terms, like aīad memory. Those lands which were “victims” of deindustrialization Modern age, one which cared little for remembering. Temptation to start over at zero (when possible) seemed the best solution to rejoining the Model meant defeat, and we find it hard to commemorate defeats. Sites marked by devastation, emptied of their activities, reduced to ruins. Since the end of the 19 th century, was disappearing and giving way to Corps de l’article PreambleĮuropean societies underwent a significant cultural shock when their production andĮconomic system found itself in a spiral of deindustrialization: a shock not only social,Įconomic and psychological but urban as well. In sum, this contribution is about the birth of a field of research in France and in Europe: industrial archeology. Following the recent discovery of the archives of the national survey that he conducted over several years to document his book, I propose to examine the way in which he approached the industrial heritage of Saint-Étienne, the first French industrial city for a long time, by updating the methodology he used and the local networks on which it relied. In this book, Daumas evokes in particular the glorious timesof industrial history in the Saint-Étienne region. It was him who brought industrial heritage into the French academic field by founding the journal L’Archéologie industrielle en France and by publishing in 1980 a book with the same title. ![]() He was a curator at the Conservatoire national des Arts & Métiers (Paris), then holder of the first Chair in the history of techniques, and he directed the monumental Histoire générale des techniques. ![]() Maurice Daumas (1910-1984) was a founder, but whose name is now forgotten. ![]()
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