Title : What Men Experience - Volume 2 - The Springs of This World - Christian Signol - Book

Summary :

Summer 1939. In Le Pradel, François and Aloïse Barthélemy, helped by their eldest son, continue to work the family land. The younger brothers have long since dispersed: Mathieu is making a prosperous estate in Algeria with his wife and children. In Switzerland, Lucie fears for her German husband and their son. Charles and his fiancée Mathilde, both teachers, have been posted a few hundred kilometers away. As for Louise, the youngest, she dreams of becoming a missionary in Africa. The happy times of their childhood when they welcomed "seekers of bread" to share with them the little they had are long gone... But the same force continues to carry them every Christmas to this land of Le Pradel where one recharges one's batteries, where one dreams of it when reality is too painful and where one comes to die.
The war is coming, which will change the course of their lives as it changed those of all those French people who lived through the 20th century loving, suffering, and following the evolution of society which slid inexorably from the countryside to the cities, throwing down the "old world", the one which, today, is finally sinking into the swamps of time.

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