Résumé
The « post-Locarnian » period (1926-1933) marked the apogee of an attempt at rapprochement rich in relationships and transnational travel. Intellectuals, in particular, concerned with a peaceful construction of Europe, sought to set up a true « Europe of Spirits ». Berlin, capital of a very young Republic, became the center of a French-German reconciliation where the different actors of this rapprochement met. Salons were created there, with the objective of social regrouping. Three women, Antonina Vallentin, Jenny de Margerie and Helene von Nostitz, left their mark on this elitist French-German microcosm in Berlin by leading a mediating mundanity. Forgotten by historiography, silent both by choice and by social obligation, these three salonnières nevertheless allowed the cohesion of a society with numerous actors from different backgrounds and fields. As women of networks, they enjoyed a certain influence and encouraged mediation and the propagation of the ideal of reconciliation defended by its theorists. This work of mediation and this feminine influence in a society of the inter-war period, which was male-centered, allows us to recognize the place of the salonnières alongside their hosts. This research work allows us to have an overview of both the place of these women and their central role, as well as a complete vision of worldliness and its attributes in the structure of a society. It is, in fact, a question of writing the Franco-German history of transnational mediating figures plunged into the memorial shadow.
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