The restrictions (movements, regroupings, curfew, etc.), bring us back to the “local”, its heritage, its history, its human resources today and in the past. Thus “around” the village, a monument is worth a detour because it is located “much less” than the 10 km authorized. “Somewhere” in a “field of the partisan of the struggle” is erected a building where the resistance fighter Constantine Quintilla was executed by the occupier. His stele sits in the middle of the countryside where he fell, mowed down by grape-shot at the age of 43, on June 21, 1944. A day of thunderous fire from Castelnau-sur-l’Auvignon until now. A few weeks before the 76th anniversary of the commemoration of May 8, 1945, beyond the traditional national anthem, we could register another “Marseillaise” in our memory repertoire. That of the Resistance. Namely, “Le Chant des partisans” written in 1943 by Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon (Free French Forces). Because in our region as elsewhere, women, men, workers and peasants are alarmed and mobilized. With the nobility of the engagement of unknown but recognized soldiers.
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