At the entrance Sourdun Cemetery, resting place of the brave and aptly named Hector Placide Giat, the usual stele dedicated to soldiers killed during the two world wars. You can read the name of a close relative of our great-great-grandfather. Who knows how the poor cousins Edward Giat, caught in youth, might have given us?
Every little village has dozens of victims of the Great War. Few families were untouched by the slaughter.
"To our children died for France - The town grateful," it said in Marcon, near the home of Ronsard.
Le village de La Roche-Clermault, bien connu de Rabelais possède lui aussi son poilu éternel et sa liste interminable.
Ils gisent là, ces braves garçons, au milieu d'une armée de tournesols , en attendant de sombrer dans l'oubli.
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