The fruits of military leave: a French woman wearing the kepi of 1914-15 hold an infant twins, a boy and a girl, one in each arm.
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"I beg you please don't believe that it is for lack of desire because you must know that I still love you madly and that my greatest happiness would be to be with you always. Only I know that you deprive yourself that you do without things and I don't want that I would prefer to send you money that I would otherwise spend so that you can take care of yourself."
Marie Pireaud writing to her husband Paul on June 21, 1915. Paul was stationed close to Paris, in Melun and Rampillon. The couple was from Nanteuil in southwest France where she lived with Paul's parents. They hoped for a child. Paul encouraged her to repeat a visit she had made to his sector, but she argued that she had not the money, that their farm was generating little income, and that by visiting, she would not be able to purchase items to send to him.
Your Death Would Be Mine; Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna, pp. 75, 76, copyright © 2006 by Martha Hanna, publisher: Harvard University Press, publication date: 2006
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