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Internment camp
“Others have understood that they are expected in a camp. Spanish refugees and gypsies scattered in the maquis told them about it. On August 20, more than nine hundred of them left the Alliers camp in Angoulême. Half of them were shipped to another camp in Mauthausen.”
Excerpt from the novel Do not enter my soul with your shoes
Alba and her family end up in the internment camp of Sillac-les-Alliers, not far from Angoulême, in 1940. But why does this very young teenager spend six years of her life in such a sinister place?
Alba’s family is nomadic. She lives of theater in the communes around Saint-Jean d’Angely in Charente-Maritime. But a scurrilous decree promulgated by Philippe Pétain on April 6 of the same year forbade the movement of travelers in wartime. Internment is then systematic for these populations. More than 6,000 of them were locked up from 1939 to May 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War! There is a camp in Montreuil-Bellay in Maine-et-Loire, but also another one in Combe-aux-loups in Ruelle-sur-Touvre or in Sillac in Charente.
A native of Cellefrouin, about forty minutes northeast of Sillac, Paola Pigani didn’t look very far to imagine her plot. For her first novel, the writer set out to tell a story based on a historical fact. That of the internment camp for gypsies and other Roma during the last world conflict. She continues with another plot set in her childhood village in Des orties et des hommes.
Today the camp has disappeared but at the impasse Georges Lautrette, an association of travellers has moved in.
N’entre pas dans mon âme avec tes chaussures has won no less than eight awards, including the Lettres Frontières Award and the Lions Club Award.
Rue Georges Lautrette
In the impasse Georges Lautrette in Sillac, an association of travellers has moved in.
It was in Sillac that a French internment camp was built in 1940. It housed Travellers from April 1940.
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Publisher’s summary: Has our favorite detective finally found a worthy adversary? Sinister is a super-criminal who knows the Hochet family a little too well. After having made Richard, the father, disappear, he attacks Ric, whom he drags with him into the limbo of the beyond. But the corpses do not resurface one album later to attack the art market… As a bonus, our hero will have to defend the FIBD of Angoulême against a mysterious killer! So many tangled mysteries, which have made the success of “Ric Hochet” for so many years…
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- «La Main de la Mort»
- «Crime sur Internet»
- «Le Jeu de la Potence»
- «BD Meurtres»
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