The strange adventure of the Saint-Cyr “galette”
Thiéblemont, André
The strange adventure of the Saint-Cyr “galette” - 2019.
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From the “galette”, a fringeless epaulette once worn by students of the Saint-Cyr military academy with mediocre or very poor grades, by ways of the “galette officers” or “fine galettes”, rebels against the norms of Saint-Cyr, to today’s La Galette, a song that has become the anthem of the Saint-Cyr Academy—what circumstances and detours of symbolic thinking brought about this transformation of an object that once symbolized resistance to authority for the students of Saint-Cyr?
The strange adventure of the Saint-Cyr “galette” - 2019.
46
From the “galette”, a fringeless epaulette once worn by students of the Saint-Cyr military academy with mediocre or very poor grades, by ways of the “galette officers” or “fine galettes”, rebels against the norms of Saint-Cyr, to today’s La Galette, a song that has become the anthem of the Saint-Cyr Academy—what circumstances and detours of symbolic thinking brought about this transformation of an object that once symbolized resistance to authority for the students of Saint-Cyr?
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