| Abstract | This article investigates the relationship between memory and historiography on the basis of the case of the Camisard uprising in France at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It observes how practices of commemoration lead to the absence of the very past they recall and how historiography intervenes in the very construction of so-called childhood memories written by witnesses to the presence of the past in a particular place. It seeks to demonstrate how the transmission of the past is first of all a construction of the past. The presence and absence of the past in historiography or in memory are examined through the works of writers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, such as Voltaire, François Mauriac, André Chamson, Eugène Sue and André de Lamothe, as well as through the works of historians. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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