Los movimientos juveniles en la Francia de entreguerras

Abstract

In interwar France, youth constituted an individual stage of life associated with particular duties and privileges more than a simple age range. Therefore, the first aim of this article is to identify the specifics of this stage as well as the rites that marked its beginning and end in different social backgrounds. It will continue by inquiring about the forms of collective organization of the young and, more particularly, the rise and development of a new kind of grouping, the youth movement. After showing the common features of these movements, especially those religious and educationally based, this study will attenpt to determine to what extent youth movements perpetuated, in a new way, the Ancien Regime’s youth organisations, by partly accepting its traditional roles such as the mobilization of young people’s energies on behalf of honour and community values, as well as the progressive integration of the young into the adult world.