It is to pay tribute to her father that Alexandra Schroll recently decided to publish her memoirs. Died in 2010, André Schroll was born on March 9, 1945 in Vaux-et-Chantegrue. He then spent his childhood in the Labergement-Sainte-Marie area. A few months before his death, he dictated memories and anecdotes to his wife Claude, who took care to type them into the computer.
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“Basically, it was mainly for the family. I had forgotten all that a bit and I came back to the manuscript when I moved in September 2023,” recalls Alexandra Schroll. The latter then quickly decided to offer the writings to different publishing houses.
“There is a touching side, because it is the image of an era”
The project called A Childhood in Haut-Doubs then caught the attention of Le Lys Bleu who chose to publish it. “There is a touching side, because it is the image of an era, namely the end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s. There are things that seem very far away and I was sure that that was going to talk to other people of his generation,” confides Alexandra Schroll.
“We feel rurality”
And that is indeed what happened, since since the publication of these memories, she has received numerous phone calls from people who have been close or distant to her dad. In his story, we learn in particular that a neighbor sometimes took him to school on a sleigh pulled by horses. “We feel rurality,” smiles Alexandra. Or even that in winter, when the walls of his little house were covered with frost, he made frescoes with snowmen. “He said that when you’re little, you only see the good side of things. »
Profits for the benefit of the CSC association
André Schroll shared these memories until his adolescence in the early 1960s, a period when he joined the boarding school at the college in Pontarlier. For her part, his daughter sort of put her hand in this project by writing the preface. The book, which has so far been published in 300 copies, can be ordered from various bookstores in the area. Profits from sales will be donated to the CSC association (Know cerebellar syndromes).
For more information, you can contact Alexandra Schroll at 06.74.23.31.50.
