TY - BOOK AU - Thiéblemont,André TI - The strange adventure of the Saint-Cyr “galette” PY - 2019///. N1 - 46 N2 - 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? UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-inflexions-2019-1-page-103?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -