ABSTRACT
Before a large group standing on the pavement in front of 92, Boulevard Roosevelt, Bordeaux, on Thursday 18th May 1995, a plaque was unveiled to Emile Durkheim ‘founder of French sociology’. A number of speeches were made by local dignatories and academics attending the Colloque International being held at Bordeaux in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Durkheim’s famous The Rules of Sociological Method. Charles-Henri Cuin who organised the conference emphasised in an interview for the local newspaper that the fame of Durkheim had had to be reinstated in Bordeaux where Durkheim had written his founding works after decades through which students had been instructed to ‘forget Durkheim’.
