The imprint of 13 november 2015 terrorist attacks on french society ; L'empreinte des attentats du 13 novembre 2015 sur la société française

International audience ; As part of the 13-November research program, directed by the CNRS, the INSERM and heSam University, andinvolving 31 partners, a questionnaire of eleven questions about the attacks of 13 November 2015 was administrated, seven months after the events, into permanent survey “Living conditions and Aspirations of the French”of the Centre for Study and Observation of Conditions of Life (Credoc). This survey is based on a representativesample of the French population, who has been surveyed twice a year for forty years. The questioning aboutthe tragic events of 13 November will be followed in the future (two years after the first investigation, five yearslater, and ten years later). It is aimed to bring elements of context on the memorialization process of the attacksof 13 November in the French society. As such, it is conceived as a contribution to the 13-November researchprogram, which studies the construction and evolution of the memory of these terrorist attacks by thinking thearticulation between individual memory and collective memory.The study shows a very strong impact of the attacks in French society, seven months after their occurrence.The French population thinks that the 13 November attacks represent the most significant terrorist attackssince 2000. The impact is also tangible in terms of memory imprint, with a strong precision of memory associated to the event, such as personal memory (flash-bulb memory) as well as factual memory (places where theevent took place).People under 40 years seem to have been particularly affected due to a certain closeness and identificationto the targets of the attacks, possibly in relation with the media exposure and a form of echo to the shock of11 September, which has been established as a generational memory marker for the teenagers and young peopleat this time. The 13 November attacks have had various consequences on the French society, including a climateof fear, an increase in importance of the security questions, and concerns regarding the ...