Louis Barthas

Louis Barthas is a war veteran of the Great War, born the July 14th 1879 with Homps (Aude) and dead the May 4th 1952 with Peyriac-Minervois (Aude).

With the declaration of war, Louis Barthas was Tonnelier with Peyriac-Minervois and it took again this same trade after the armistice. Socialist militant, it had taken part in his area in the creation of the trade union of the farm laborers and shared the peaceful ideas of Jean Jaurès. Mobilized with the 280ème regiment of infantry of Narbonne with the rank of Corporal which it preserved throughout conflict, it fought in the most dangerous sectors of the face: Our-Lady-to-Lorette, Verdun, the Somme and the Way of the Ladies and it left completely exhausted its four years war.

He wrote his experiments of war in a very appreciated personal newspaper, prefaced by Rémy Cazals in 1978 under the title the notebooks of war of Louis Barthas, wet cooper, 1914-1918 (Éditions François Maspero, Paris). A work of more than 500 pages whose François Mitterrand recognized very sincerely that it had a high historical value and that it constituted also a true literary work . The only luggage of Louis Barthas was his Certificate of studies (but all the same like first price of the canton and preceded by the General advice) and it had read much: Karl Marx, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Anatole France…

This work, in which number of authors writing on the facts of the First World War do not hesitate to pick of the quotations, fact part of impossible to circumvent for which is interested in this period.

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