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The French General Arms Delegation (GAD) deployed a new organizational strategy in 2005 that exemplifies the Delegation's ambition to maintain the continuity of its mission even in today's fluid military environment. The central items in this new strategy include a strengthened focus on coherence in the financial aspects concerning defense programs, continued technological advancement, reinforcement of plans in European military integration, development of the GAD's data systems, and development of a more dynamic human resources protocol. This article examines the GAD's organizational plans to increase its internal efficiency and become a central player in unified European military development.

The Palais de la Porte Doree in Paris has always been a museum, but its collections and their interpretation varied trough time: colonies, overseas, remote arts and finally immigration. These patrimonial changes and requalification provoked conflicts focused either on the collections or the building built in 1931 for the colonial exhibition. Contests relates to the patrimonial use of the building: strikes of employees in 2003 when the National Museum of Arts from Africa and Oceania closed; demonstrations of outside activists; controversies and resignations of intellectuals in 2007 when the Palais became the National City of the History of Immigration. Other contests use heritage not as an issue but as a lever to defend a cause: the independence of former colonies or the regularisation of illegal immigrants with a particular focus on the sit-in by illegal 'worker strikers' during winter 2010. The authors try to grasp the originality of contestation tools belonging to the heritage area - support by photographers and illustrators, publication of books, exhibitions created by activists or permanent collection by the museum - and to tackle the nearly immediate capacity to 'digest' of present events via the heritage paradigm. Adapted from the source document.

Based on a fieldwork among the French 'Pieds-Noirs,' this article analyses through a 'micro' perspective the enactment of individual memory in concrete situations. Its aim is to decipher elements of the everyday processes of appropriation and reformulation of memory, as it takes place in ordinary interactions. The analysis of these interactions observed in very detailed settings shows how elements that are at least believable (if not 'true') are produced, maintained, reevaluated and cast in one's memory. The actualization of those frames and contents of memory seems eventually to follow the modalities of banal interactions, which can hence be considered as relatively autonomous source of the 'small production of memory.'. Adapted from the source document.