This article uses the new database « Mémoire des Hommes » (MdH) and the 1911 survey. To analyze the geographic spread of dead of the Great War, we have assessed the potential of mobilizable by areas and tested an econometric model which includes demographic, economic and spatial variables...

This paper discusses the statistical analysis of French soldiers? death during the Great War, on a methodological, empirical and historiographical level. It shows that such a research derives from a specific context in which wartime regional identities have attracted a growing interest among...