Des paysans sans histoire, étude d'agendas paysans dans le Sud-Isère ( 1896-1956 )

Ordinary farmers and their diaries in Isère (1896-1956) : an extraordinary archives for rural history

• Auteur / Autrice : Caroline Bouchier
• Direction : Edouard Lynch
• Type : Projet de thèse
• Discipline(s) : Histoire, Histoire de l'Art
• Date : Inscription en doctorat le 14/12/2022
• Etablissement(s) : Lyon 2
• Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : ScSo - Sciences Sociales
• Partenaire(s) de recherche : Laboratoire : LER - Laboratoire d'Etudes Rurales

Mots clés

Mots clés libres

Agriculteur

Vie rurale

Écrits ordinaires

Farmers

Rural life

Ordinary written records

Résumé

This research project is based on nearly 80 peasant notebooks or diaries, written mainly between 1896 and 1956 by five men from the same family, all residing in Prelenfrey, a small village in the district of Le Gua (Isère). It seems that this family was spared by History. The family farm continues almost within the same cadastral limits and with a small livestock until the beginning of the 1980s, only the tractor came to bring a little modernity. However, this family had left, through the coincidences of inheritance, a rare archive if we consider the number of notebooks and the duration they cover. These diairies are teeming with thousands of details on the daily lives of these individuals : activities, weather, illnes, food purchases, comings and goings However, few researches have already explored this type of documents. At the period that interests us, the very materiality of the archive nevertheless leads us to believe that the diary is relatively common in the peasant world: most of the diaries collected are small notebooks published each year under the authority of C. Sylvester and distributed at low prices by the unions. The study of these diaries, supplemented by other archival funds, could lead us to pick up the thread of three major historiographical traditions: the questioning of the socio-economic units that are family farms; socio-political history which has often contributed to the knowledge of rural spaces through cantonal or departmental monographs and finally the writing of individual journeys, the search for a history of the ''unknown'', through the work of micro-history .