Heroic memory : ruin into salvation -- Afterword. Childhood holidays, childhood salvation -- Dissident memory : rupture, persecution, awakening -- Afterword. The lore of goodness and remorse -- Indifferent memory : closing the box on the past -- Afterword. The accident : temptations of silence -- From loose memory to emblematic memory : knots on the social body -- Afterword. Memory tomb of the unknown soldier -- Conclusion : memories and silences of the heart.