The editorial team advises you
Everyone has poured into these pages their memories, from life in the countryside to attending the local school, closed in 1971, or reported those of their ancestors. Monique Valadier, in coordination, has even gleaned occasional collaborations. That of Jean-Pierre Audy, tobacco growing technician, who places this production in the heart of the village, which lasted until the dawn of the 2000s.
A volume II?
That of Monique Lacroix, daughter of Roger, a traveling grocer for many years in the area and witness to the skirmish, on August 22, 1944, between the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and four German soldiers killed during this scuffle . In the room, Francis Mansière, nephew of Marcel Meilhaud, one of these FFI. That of Éric Petit, passionate about local history, who writes who were the ten dead and ten prisoners of Vaux-Lavalette during the First World War. There is also the translation into patois, by Hélène Favroul, of more bawdy stories, “in the style of Louis Pergaud”, author of “The War of the Buttons”, notes Monique Valadier.
So much common history written down on paper, a sweetly crazy bet which seems to find its audience, the first hundred copies are already out of stock, the second has been ordered. And Monique Valadier says she is thinking about a new volume after having discovered, during the writing of this first book, the life story of the country guard who sounded the bugle on the 1stis August 1944 in Vaux-Lavalette and died the following August 28 on the battlefield of Moislains alongside 465 other Charentais.
(1) The co-authors of “The Little Stories of Vaux-Lavalette” will be signing this Saturday, November 30 from 2:30 p.m. at the Vaux-Lavalette village hall, and on December 7, from 9:30 a.m., at La Maison de the Montmoreau press.
