Romain Lateltin UNE TRANCHÉE DE VIE - ROMAIN LATELTIN (LIVRE CD)

Me, my settler, the one I prefer is the war of 14-18, sang Brassens who thus mocked the cult reserved for heroes who died for their country. Let's remember, it was to be the der of ders and despite never again! sworn by the survivors, it was only the dress rehearsal for the next one that became the deadliest conflict in history with its 60 million deaths. Victor Lateltin, no offense to Brassens, was one of the anonymous heroes of this appalling butchery of 14-18. His story is both exceptional and banal. Born in Italy and naturalized French in 1910, his career speaks of immigration, integration, patriotism and fatalism. He was barely writing French when he was already defending the borders of his new homeland... But Victor's story is above all a love story with Célestine and their four children, whom these poignant postcards recount with emotion and candor. It's the little story in the Big Story, reconstituted by Xavier Lateltin, narrated and set to music by Romain Lateltin (respectively grandson and great-grandson of Victor and Célestine) with the complicity of Théophile Ardy. Read and listen, you will be amazed. Like Victor, he never returned from the battlefield… David Séchan Publisher and Administrator of Sacem