Used book – A SMILE FOR MATILDA, ALBERT DUCLOZ

Arnaud, son of the Baron de Lespinasse, and Camille, daughter of the sharecroppers on the estate, decide to love each other in secret despite their social differences. Fate will conspire against the couple. While Camille becomes pregnant, Arnaud is conscripted at the beginning of the Great War. Fearing she will face her family's reproaches alone, Camille makes her beloved promise to return alive from the front. Arnaud will thus devise many ruses to take care of his wife and his daughter Mathilde, even if it means risking his life, and especially his honor...