Drawing on his knowledge of the places and landscapes where the French fought during the First World War, Michel Bernard has notably published
La Tranchée de Calonne
(La Table Ronde, 2007, Erckmann-Chatrian Prize),
Pour Genevoix
(La Table Ronde, 2011),
The Great War seen from the sky
(Perrin, 2014) and
Faces of Verdun
(Perrin, 2016).
Last published work:
Le Bon Sens
(La Table Ronde, 2020, 208 p., 20 €, Alexandre-Vialatte prize), which tells of the fight of a few men, in the middle of the 15th century, to obtain the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc .
Maurice Genevoix, who will enter the Pantheon on November 11 with
those of 14,
had been seriously wounded by three Mauser bullets on April 25, 1915, at the end of the Battle of Eparges, on the Meuse coast.
Shortly before the centenary of this terrible episode of the Great War, on January 7, 2015, his son-in-law, Bernard Maris, was killed by a Kalashnikov bullet in the head, in Paris, in the
Charlie Hebdo
newsroom
.
Troubling return of history.
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