The 1914-1918 war is remembered for the sheer scale of human losses: at least 18% of the soldiers enlisted in the French army - some 1.5 million men - died in uniform. Using datafrom the latest historical and demographic research on military and civilian losses, the author compares the carnage...

Bozon Michel and Héran François. ? Finding a Spouse. II. The Meeting Place in Social Space. The "Formation of Couples" survey which was carried out in 1983-1984 on a sample of 3 000 (people under 45, belonging to couples, married or unmarried) investigated mechanisms at work in the marriage...

Our ideas about population have varied continuously over the centuries, as illustrated in the vocabulary changes detected by Ngram Viewer in the vast corpus of books digitized by Google. For example, the French word démographie, first coined in 1855, did not take off until after the Great War,...

Nos idées sur la population n'ont cessé de varier au fil des siècles. En témoigne l'évolution du vocabulaire des ouvrages numérisés en masse par Google, qu'on peut désormais sonder avec Ngram Viewer. Ainsi, « démographie », créé en 1855, ne prend son essor qu'après la Grande...

Bozon Michel and Héran François. ? Finding a Spouse. I. Changes and Morphology of First Encounters. The "Formation of Couples" survey was carried out in France in 1983-84 It consisted of a sample of 3 000 persons aged 45 years or less living together either in formal marriage or in cohabiting...

Foreign women account for 12% of births in France, and immigrant women, including naturalized French citizens, 15%. The fertility of foreign women is higher than that of French women (3.3 children versus 1.8 in 2004), but since only a small minority of the population is concerned, the effect on...

Les étrangères contribuent aux naissances de la France dans une proportion de 12 % et les immigrées, qui incluent les étrangères devenues françaises, dans une proportion de 15 %. La fécondité des étrangères est plus élevée que celle des Françaises (3,3 enfants contre 1,8 en 2004),...

À l’issue de la Grande Guerre, la génération des hommes née en 1894, ou « classe 1914 », était âgée de 25 ans. Elle avait perdu la moitié de ses effectifs, sous l’effet de deux hécatombes de même ampleur : la mortalité infantile et juvénile d’abord, la mortalité de guerre...

A survey of public-sector researchers and academics shows that English is used almost exclusively as the international language of dialogue in the hard sciences, and is also well-established in the humanities and social sciences. English is also the language of choice for publications, meetings...