Abstract
The inauguration of the monument to France on November 11, 1930 in Belgrade not only represented a symbolic event that commemorated the material and moral aid France gave to Serbia during the Great War. It also symbolized France's political and diplomatic determination to act within and outside of the kingdom of Yugoslavia where King Alexandre Karadjordjevic's personal regime had just been set up. On the royal government's side, it meant the determination to impose from above, by reference to France, a political and symbolic compromise within the country. This article analyzes the workings of a politicized memory as well as the scope and limits of the action taken by the French and the Serbs.