Compter les vivants et les morts : l'évaluation des pertes françaises de 1914-1918

Abstract

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Computations of French lifetables by department, 1901–2014

“…It mobilizes the crowd-based indexing on the Mémoire des Hommes website: Anyone, using their personal research on a specific soldier, can inform both his birth year and death year. The third is the total of deaths as estimated by researchers at the national level (Pedroncini 1992, Prost 2008, Hubert 1931, Lagrou et al 2002, so as to verify the overall consistency of the various sources. Online Appendix A-4 presents in an extensive manner the methods used to obtain military death by year of birth, year of death, and department of residence.…”

The Missing Men

“…4 To explain post-war patterns in fertility and female marriage choices, Vandenbroucke (2014) and Knowles and Vandenbroucke (2019) build and calibrate models of fertility choices and marital matching. All three studies rely on military fatalities data from Huber (1931,426), which are only available across 22 regions and the accuracy of which has been challenged by historians (Prost, 2008). Besides studying alternative consequences of the war over a longer time horizon, our analysis employs a measure of military death rates that builds upon the collection of 1.3 million individual military records.…”

“…Appendix I provides more details about this database and discusses its advantage over Huber(1931, 426). The number of soldiers who ultimately died as a result of the war remains uncertain as some past several years after due to injuries or illnesses contracted during the conflict, but the figure of 1.3 million is the consensus(Prost, 2008). It is similarly difficult to assess the number of civilian fatalities; they are usually evaluated at 40,000(Huber, 1931, 310-4).…”

The Missing Men: World War I and Female Labor Participation

“…However, the figure of 1.3 million is the consensus among historians for the number of military deaths in November 1918, at the end of the war. Prost (2008) provides a detailed account of the assessment of military fatalities. It is similarly difficult to assess the number of civilian victims during the conflict.…”