This is the extraordinary story of Antoinette and Louis Thuillier, a pair of farmers from the Somme who immortalized in black and white the thousands of foreign soldiers involved in the massacres of the Great War in the north of France. They capture fleeting moments of happiness on camera without feeling overwhelmed by the anxiety of the next day.
“1918, the treasure of Antoinette and Louis”, the 58-minute documentary broadcast Tuesday, November 11 on France 2 is “a gift to Vignacourt”, admits Valérie Vasseur, 60, director of the 1914-1918 interpretation center in the small town of 2,000 inhabitants surrounded by beet fields about twenty kilometers from Amiens. There we find some striking portraits of soldiers from 30 nations who were prominent in the French countryside at that time.
