Les invalides dans la littérature juridique, autour des représentations de la dette patriotique
he function of poetry is to express what cannot be apprehended without the thickness of the lived, to reveal, denounce or celebrate. It thus humanizes the overly bureaucratic taxonomies or classifications of forensic medicine and standards. The poetry of law allows a linguistic humanity where disability or dependence is the other of ourselves. The idea of the recognition of fragility and otherness; of the right to compensation was in no way the order of evidence for the wounded and disabled of war. The asylum for the disabled was a place of military discipline before becoming a place of reception and care. The pension was a reward of no value other than military before it had any economic value. Indeed, the poetry of law has pitted the party of the debt of blood and patriotic debt against that of the debt of the nation and the sacred debt of protection for the guardians of the City. It is this sacred debt that the nation owes that has to be put into perspective in this article. Of this debt which it is impossible to liquidate without extra care and humanity because it is irretrievably more than a debt.