Used book – Bassoles s'en va t'en guerre, Nicole Buresi, Collective

August 1914. They were twenty, eighteen, or forty years old... Their names were Maurice, Jean, Antoine, Lucien, or Henri, all from the canton of Bassoles. The war took them far from home...

Christmas 1914. Father Xavier spreads his right arm wide, looking at the full yet empty church: "I have an idea: this Christmas night, this vigil that they cannot attend, we will dedicate to our dear absent ones. We will read their letters together. Wherever they are, they will be with us."