Extrait du carnet de poilu d'Emile Ménard

Extract from Emile Ménard's soldier's notebook where, following the attack, he takes stock of the human losses of his regiment: "... our regiment, so brave, so beautiful, so enthusiastic the day before, is today decimated, scattered, and almost without command...". We feel through his story the emotion that he embraces: "... we are exhausted with fatigue [...] and especially from the emotion of th…