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Depuis plus de deux siècles, la pensée symbolique saint-cyrienne se nourrit des créations d’élèves officiers producteurs de traditions. Contournant des interdits et jouant des décisions rationnelles du commandement, ils ne cessent de fabriquer de quoi créer la mobilisation et la cohésion des promotions de saint-cyriens. Jusqu’à produire du merveilleux.

For more than two centuries, the symbolic thinking of the Saint-Cyr military school has been enriched by the creations of its officers-in-training, who continue to produce new traditions. Working their way around prohibitions and playing with the rational decisions of their commanders, they constantly fabricate items that inspire the mobilization and cohesion of the successive promotions of the school. Certain of these creations are marvels in themselves.