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South of France blog

The Lauragais remembers

8/11/2018

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To mark the centenary of the end of the Great War, the History Society of Revel has published a book called 'Le Lauragais se souvient' which chronicles the experiences of the people of the Lauragais between 1914 and 1918: those who went to fight in the trenches, those who were left behind, and the memorials to the dead that were erected afterwards.
This evening I attended an event entitled 'A Hymn to Peace' which included the launch of the book, an exhibition about the war, a short film made by the local high school, and a play about the ladies of the Lauragais and the letters they received from their loved ones at the front.
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The mood was reverential and sombre until one of the book's authors - my friend Jean-Paul Calvet, President of the Revel History Society - made me wear a Tommy helmet and took me for a ride in a taxi. This vehicle was one of 630 Parisian taxis used in September 1914 to transport troops to the Battle of the Marne.
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