Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale à Noël en 1914, il y a eu soudain cessez-le-feu non officiel le long du front occidental organisés par les soldats français, britanniques et allemands. Ils ont traversé des tranchées pour échanger de la nourriture, des souvenirs et des idées. Dans certains cas, ils ont joué au football, chanté des chants de Noël, organisé des cérémonies funéraires et échangé des prisonniers de guerre. Les cessez-le-feu ont également eu lieu à divers endroits en 1915. Cependant, en 1916, la guerre était devenue plus amère et les officiers des armées françaises, britanniques et allemandes ont écrasé les cessez-le-feu. Tuer était beaucoup plus important que le rétablissement de la paix.
Paul Vaillant-Couturier (1892-1937) était l'un des soldats français parmi ceux qui célébraient la trêve. En tant que jeune homme d'une famille bourgeoise aisée à Paris, il n'avait jamais pensé qu'il se battrait un jour pour la France et tuerait des Allemands. Ses parents étaient des chanteurs et des acteurs à succès, et comme il l'a indiqué dans son autobiographie fictive, il a été préparé pour devenir un avocat ou un ingénieur professionnel. Cependant, il a suivi les traces de ses parents et est devenu un artiste. Pourtant, après s'être enrôlé dans l'armée française et servi dans l'infanterie et l'artillerie, il a réalisé à quel point la guerre était cruelle et a causé la mort de milliers de jeunes hommes qui ont sacrifié leur vie pour protéger les intérêts des classes dirigeantes. Au moment où il a été licencié en 1919, il a émergé en tant que pacifiste et socialiste avec cinq médailles d'honneur pour héroïsme. À partir de ce moment de sa vie, il est devenu un journaliste et un homme politique majeur ; il a été l'un des fondateurs du parti communiste français et a servi comme rédacteur en chef du journal de gauche LHumanité. Il est mort en 1937 des suites de blessures causées par une tentative d'assassinat.
Préoccupé par l'avenir des jeunes, Vaillant-Couturier a publié de nombreux livres sur la guerre, et l'une de ses œuvres les plus importantes était Jean sans douleur (Johnny Breadless, 1921). Il décrit une éducation très différente de celle qu'il avait reçue, car Johnny Breadless est un orphelin et ne comprend pas pourquoi et comment ses parents sont morts et pourquoi il n'y a aucune aide pour lui. Ce n'est qu'après avoir rencontré un lapin incroyable qui l'emmène en voyage dans diverses régions de France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale que Johnny commence à saisir les vraies conditions qui conduisent à l'exploitation des gens ordinaires et aux guerres qui profitent aux riches. C'est dans ce remarquable roman de conte de fées qu'un cessez-le-feu a lieu, un qui donne à Johnny l'espoir que les gens peuvent vivre ensemble en paix. C'est une trêve que Vaillant-Courturer a « menée » pendant la majeure partie de sa vie.
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Hardback. Etat : Good. Lurcat, Jean (illustrateur). During World War I at Christmas time in 1914 there were sudden widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front organized by the French, British, and German soldiers. They crossed trenches to exchange food, souvenirs, and ideas. In some cases they played soccer, sang Christmas carols, held burial ceremonies, and exchanged prisoners of war. The ceasefires were also held at various places in 1915. However, by 1916, the war had become more bitter, and the officers in the French, British, and German armies squashed the ceasefires. Killing was much more important than peacemaking. Paul Vaillant-Couturier (1892-1937) was one of the French soldiers among those who celebrated truce. As a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family in Paris, he had never thought he would one day fight for France and kill Germans. His parents were successful singers and actors, and as he indicated in his fictional autobiography, he was groomed to become a professional lawyer or engineer. However, he followed in his parents' footsteps and became an artist. Yet, after enlisting in the French army and serving in the infantry and artillery, he came to realize how cruel war was and caused the deaths of thousands of young men who sacrificed their lives to protect the interests of the ruling classes. By the time he was dismissed in 1919, he emerged as a pacifist and socialist with five medals of honor for heroism. From this point of his life, he went on to become a major journalist and politician; he was one of the founders of the French communist party and served as editor of the left-wing newspaper L'Humanit . He died in 1937 due to wounds from an assassination attempt. Concerned about the future of young people, Vaillant-Couturier published numerous books about the war, and one of his most significant works was Jean sans pain (Johnny Breadless, 1921). It describes a much different education than he had received, for Johnny Breadless is an orphan and does not understand why and how his parents died and why there is no help for him. It is only after he encounters an amazing rabbit who takes him on a trip to various parts of France during World War I that Johnny begins to grasp the true conditions that lead to the exploitation of common people and to wars that benefit the rich. It is in this remarkable fairy-tale novel that a ceasefire takes place-one that gives Johnny hope that people can live together in peace. It is a truce that Vaillant-Courturer waged for most of his life. N° de réf. du vendeur 00031195550
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