six
village
away
back
track
valley
Alps
foothills
graves
rosemary
killed
hall
mud
grass
ford
box
river
village
mayor
uncle
Ollon
forest
France
outcrops
road
through
apricots
73
there
cast
Florent
battlefield
period
mayor
election
France
Germany
village
wall
cicadas
mountains
66
course
Camille
waistcoat
out
warm
rock
land
plots
boys
design
post
orchards
Paul
politician
cypress
winds
horror
hillside
mairie
defiantly
87%
hair
café
sons
winter
locally
1920s
grandfather
Camille
front
engraved
wife
priest
valley
valley
war
foot
mass
corner
elder
1837
farm
morning
hair
water
gathers
1914
Vosges
hall
light
pines
scent
nowhere
quiet
folds
year
veteran's
Jean
Germain
up
valley
hinterland
road
cemetery
lives
forest
village
dapper
groves
ballot
boulangerie
insistent
summer
sentinel
The
____________________
to
Bénivay
-
____________________
leads
to
____________________
else
.
It
____________________
up
the
____________________
along
the
____________________
of
the
shallow
Ayguemarse
____________________
,
between
craggy
limestone
____________________
and
emerald
-
green
____________________
,
to
a
____________________
of
____________________
souls
.
In
____________________
the
____________________
are
____________________
and
the
____________________
air
is
infused
with
the
____________________
of
wild
____________________
.
In
____________________
morning
dew
____________________
on
the
____________________
,
and
Mediterranean
____________________
gleam
____________________
in
the
watery
____________________
.
The
____________________
boasts
no
____________________
,
no
shop
,
no
____________________
office
,
no
____________________
.
Nobody
passes
____________________
it
by
chance
or
even
____________________
.
A
visiting
____________________
arrives
up
the
road
to
celebrate
____________________
at
the
church
just
twice
a
____________________
.
Once
through
the
____________________
,
the
road
twists
____________________
to
a
____________________
over
the
____________________
,
and
thenceforth
turns
into
a
dirt
____________________
that
disappears
into
the
____________________
.
Perched
improbably
on
a
sheer
-
edged
____________________
,
accessible
only
by
____________________
,
the
tiny
13th
-
century
stone
chapel
of
Saint
____________________
watches
over
the
____________________
like
a
____________________
.
On
a
bright
June
____________________
,
Daniel
Charrasse
is
to
be
found
outside
the
____________________
,
or
town
____________________
.
Aged
____________________
,
a
slight
figure
with
thinning
silver
____________________
,
he
is
a
retired
apricot
farmer
who
was
born
down
the
____________________
and
grew
up
in
the
____________________
.
He
is
now
the
____________________
,
a
role
treated
____________________
more
as
an
____________________
than
a
____________________
.
At
the
most
recent
municipal
____________________
,
39
voters
dropped
his
name
into
the
____________________
____________________
.
That
was
____________________
of
those
____________________
.
For
much
of
the
post
-
war
____________________
,
Monsieur
Charrasse's
father
____________________
,
who
also
grew
____________________
in
the
____________________
,
was
____________________
.
And
in
the
____________________
so
was
Germain's
____________________
,
____________________
.
Tradition
and
loss
are
baked
into
the
____________________
in
this
isolated
____________________
of
____________________
,
which
lies
in
the
____________________
of
____________________
between
the
____________________
of
the
____________________
and
the
Mediterranean
____________________
.
Five
years
before
the
first
world
war
broke
____________________
,
Monsieur
Charrasse's
great
-
grandfather
____________________
,
born
in
the
village
in
____________________
,
died
,
leaving
his
____________________
to
run
the
____________________
with
their
four
____________________
.
When
____________________
declared
war
on
____________________
,
all
four
____________________
were
sent
from
the
____________________
and
olive
____________________
of
the
Ayguemarse
valley
to
the
____________________
and
____________________
of
the
____________________
,
nearly
1
,
000km
(
621
miles
)
____________________
.
____________________
,
their
second
son
,
never
made
it
____________________
.
Paul
was
____________________
on
the
____________________
in
the
____________________
mountains
in
August
____________________
,
during
the
first
bloody
weeks
of
____________________
.
He
was
one
of
____________________
villagers
who
lost
their
____________________
,
their
names
____________________
in
stone
on
the
____________________
next
to
the
town
____________________
.
Albert
,
Daniel's
____________________
,
and
his
two
other
brothers
,
Elie
and
____________________
,
all
returned
home
to
the
____________________
,
married
and
settled
____________________
.
Albert's
____________________
card
shows
a
____________________
young
man
with
neat
____________________
,
in
a
wool
jacket
and
____________________
.
Today
their
____________________
lie
in
Charrasse
family
____________________
in
the
square
walled
____________________
,
a
____________________
spot
up
on
the
____________________
,
lined
by
____________________
trees
.