Natalisme et nationalisme pendant la première guerre mondiale - article ; n°1 ; vol.45, pg 30-39

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1995 - Volume 45 - Numéro 1 - Pages 30-39
Natalism and nationalism at the time of the First World War, Judith Wishnia.
Concern about the low French birth rate compared with Germany's demographie dynamism grew into a crisis during the First World War. Nationalism and natalism were from then on linked. The revelation of rapes committed by the German troops during the occupation of Northern and Eastern France posed a dilemma for part of French public opinion: natalism and nationalism clashed when faced with the possible response to the condition of women thereby made pregnant. The advocates of the prohibition of abortion won because, in spite of the circumstances of conception, a child born to a French mother, fed on French milk and brought up in France was French. The mother's nationality superseded that of the male seed.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.