Un Tour sur soi. Les bons usages de la nostalgie en compagnonnage.

The article focuses on the uses and representations of nostalgia among trade organizations such as the compagnons du Tour de France, an active French organization of craftsmen and artisans. According to the article, the Tour de France is an initiation period during which apprentices learn their trade in various areas of France except their own region. Two aspects of the Tour de France are considered including the one which provokes the sentiment of loosing one's regional origins and the nostalgia felt after the end of the Tour.