%0 Journal Article
%T La Pologne en France: les diff érences de perception entre l’opinion publique et les intellectuels français
%A Warchol, Lidwine
%J Studia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/2543733XSSB.17.012.7258
%N Tom XXV
%P 173-190
%K Pologne, France, intellectuels, exilés politiques, relations reciproques
%@ 2451-4993
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/ssb/artykul/la-pologne-en-france-les-diff-erences-de-perception-entre-lopinion-publique-et-les-intellectuels-francais
%X 
	The article deals with the relationship between two social actors, that is to say the French intellectuals and the French opinion, to Poland. This study is part of a work of crossed history, starting with the French context to show what circulates about Poland in France, and how. From there, the idea is also to see how the reception of Poland can modify or alter the interventions of one another. The study goes back to the origins of the representations on Poland which emerged either through old contacts established at the time of the Ancient Regime, or following the arrival of Polish immigrants in France, who have a very different understanding depending on their social background. If, for a long time, the relationship to these immigrants has forged the image of Poland in France, – a far less positive image than some stereotypes suggest – these representations have been slowly modified thanks to the possibilities to travel and the opening of the country in the late 1950s. The 1970s and the issue of socialism coming to power in France allowed opposing Polish intellectuals to became a reference in France, on the public opinion’s side, a whole Poland benefited a positive image, enhanced by the election of the pope. Finally, the Solidarność moment and the state of war showed how French intellectuals and French public opinion brought a different insight on this events and how the latter won over it thanks to the role of the collective emotion that then expressed.