The
principles of our action:
Each
and every village is about to have its own bread,
perfume, or old crafts museum. But oddly enough,
in the midst of all this museum craze, nothing
of importance seems to have been done to spare
our sport culture from the damage of time. The
urge to save what can be, will clearly appear
to us while reading this article by ethnologist
Christian Bromberger: " Sports clubs records
are disappearing as equipments are being modernised,
without anybody's concern. There is indeed a
national Museum of Sports, but it merely displays
shoes, outfits and bikes having belonged to
the famous.Why would the village church, wine
press, or old mill, whose study or even classification
are quite rightly recommended, have more patrimonial
dignity than the village football ground, a
memory- place the villagers are usually so fond
of ?
Do we have to wait until time has left
its patina and all witnesses have died, to seriously
consider an object and the words around it ?
Or do we have to pay attention to the symbolic
shapes in progress and the expression of their
meaning, in order to allow future generations
to understand what we were ?
(Terrain " n° 25 , September
1995, p11)
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Site Content
In
this site we have gathered a sample of
our rich collection. The pictures and ancient
photographs are numerous : you may use
them to illustrate your personal documents,
or those of your association. The books, periodicals
or archives are listed with details on the catalogue
page. If you are interested by our archives,
and you want more information, do not hesitate
to contact us , or even visit us in Carpentras.
Do
you want to join in with us in our work at the
Conservatoire des Sports ?
There is a lot of
work to be done, looking for any document related
to the history of sports, or which can help
understand it better. Documents of interest
vary from old pictures, papers, newspaper
clips, press-books, clubs literature (brochures,
calendars, etc).
Of course, our wish is not
to dispossess the owners from their rare and
only copies ; Reprints or photocopies
are as interesting to us, although they do not
have the same value .
The statutes of our
association automatically grant the donator
free membership, for contributing to enlarging
our collection. So, be on the look out
for interesting documents, and do not
hesitate to join us, any help is welcome
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