memories & testimony

Yves, 1935

For my children and my grandchildren to have an idea of what I knew in my youth, I regret enough not to know much about that of my parents.
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The War as seen by a child

I was born at Sampigny, in the Meuse, on November 7th, 1935.
My first memories, they go back a little before the war: I was then in four years and we lived in Belleville, Marshal Petain impasse, renamed General de Gaulle impasse for reasons well known …

Three years in the Navy

I was seventeen, I did not want to continue my studies, I dreamed of a life more hectic. Like the majority of young people of my time, I only knew the sea and distant countries through picture books and some black and white films …