Patriotic consent

The concept of patriotic consent (French: Consentement patriotique) refers to the acceptance of an armed conflict for nationalist reasons, by the combatants themselves. It was notably used in connection with the First World War.

This notion was developed in the 1990s by a group of historians attached to the Historical Research Centre of the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, including the French historians Jean-Jacques Becker, Annette Becker and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau. It is formulated in particular by the latter two in the work 14-18, Retrouver la guerre (Paris, Gallimard, 2000).

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