FRAD087_155. La déclaration de guerre vue par Jean Demars

Jean Demars, originally from Vicq-sur-Breuilh (Haute-Vienne) employed on the railways as a brakeman, lived in Limoges, rue du Puy-Imbert. When war was declared, he was in Paris, from where he wrote to his wife Anna, with whom he then had five children, three letters in the space of a few days. In his first letter (August 1, 1914), he told him of his certainty of being mobilized soon. The second le…