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Vocabulary
Objective: Formulate cases for historical landmark preservation amidst commercial urban development pressures using precise heritage and memory vocabulary.
| French term | English equivalent | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| la mémoire collective | collective memory | history |
| le devoir de mémoire | duty of remembrance | history |
| la commémoration | commemoration | public policy |
| le monument historique | listed monument | preservation |
| la restauration | restoration | preservation |
| l'UNESCO | UNESCO | international body |
Le patrimoine culturel covers both tangible monuments and the intangible practices that l'UNESCO also recognises.
La mémoire collective belongs to communities and may diverge from the version recorded by historians or institutions.
A bare noun phrase naming the shared representation of a past held by a group, ready to be combined with entretenir or transmettre.
A bare noun phrase naming intangible practices and know-how, distinct from the tangible assets of le patrimoine matériel.
The transmission of memory relies on both private narratives and public ceremonies, and the two channels reinforce each other.
The moral obligation calls for public recognition rather than silence, and its purpose is to prevent repetition.
The intervention preserves existing material, in contrast with reconstruction, which produces a new object.
7 exercises · about 11 minutes
La restauration preserves existing material, while a full reconstruction belongs to la reconstitution.
Le devoir de mémoire calls for public recognition rather than silence, and its purpose is to prevent repetition.
La patrimonialisation introduces protective rules rather than a total freeze, so the site can still evolve within a defined framework.
The consultative process gathers opinions before the official protection is granted.
Market pressure is the tension that heritage policy seeks to contain through protective rules.
Private funding supplements public budgets, and it introduces its own conditions on the projects it supports.