Thalamas business

The Affaire Thalamas refers to a manifestation of the Camelots of the King (militant the French Action connects) against the course of a professor named Amédée Thalamas, bearing on Jeanne d' Arc.

In 1904, following a course particularly directed towards the memory of Jeanne d' Arc with the College Charlemagne, where Thalamas denounced in particular the “Jeannolâtrie” (it had exposed a judged vision “Positiviste” of its life, in its Jeanne d' Arc, the history and the legend , Paris, P. Paclot, 1904), an open survey by the Minister for the State education Joseph Chaumié concludes with a blame from the professor, who then had to teach with the Lycée Condorcet. The business gave pretext to a duel between Paul Déroulède and Jean Jaurès, in December 1904, which was without success.

Thalamas not having a title of arts doctor, the Council of the professors of the Faculty of Letters, chaired by the senior, Alfred Croiset, had authorized it in November 1908 with the opening of a free course on the Pédagogie of the History for the winter 1908-1909.

After the nomination of Thalamas to the Sorbonne, the Camelots of the King directed by Maxime Real del Sarte stop each Wednesday the course of Amédée Thalamas, sometimes with violence:

  • At the beginning of the first course, on December 2nd, 1908, it was slapped by Maxime Real del Sarte.
  • on February 17th, 1909, Maurice Pujo succeeds in penetrating in the amphitheater with several militants, and seize Thalamas. This one is buttock by Lucien Lacour, which launches to him: “Your place is not here. It is with the synagog or the street Cadet” , before being struck by a chair which the professor had launched to him.

During and at the conclusion of the courses took place of many brawls between the militants monarchists and the police force, but also with catholic militants who rejected their action, in particular the “Sillonistes” (of the name of the movement of Marc Sangnier, the Furrow). The French Action organized several unparliamentary demonstrations in parallel.

During the events, several Street pedlars were stopped and held with the Prison of Health. In February, the deputy Jules Delahaye, who had previously denounced the Scandale of Panamá, speaks with the House of Commons to protest against these arrests. Received by the president of the Council, Georges Clémenceau, Maxime Real del Sarte obtained the release of the prisoners then.

The Thalamas business caused impassioned reactions; the camps thalamists and antithalamists confronted themselves again the same year at the time of the nomination of Thalamas with the Sorbonne. This episode falls under one period of mythification of Jeanne d' Arc in the mediums Nationaliste S French; it is about the one of the first blow of glare of the Street pedlars of the King.

Bibliographical reference

  • Maurice Pujo, Street pedlars of the King , 1933 (2 ED. posthumous, Editions of the Churl , 1989, pages 33 to 171)

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the Thalamas business on the site devoted to the Street pedlars of the King
  • the duel Jaurès-Déroulède

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