Ville sur Cousances, on the 22nd May, 1998

"Dad? I am calling you from Verdun.

I just retrieved the grave of Henri Baudiment".

In the receiver, Daddy's voice broke down with emotion...

Photography: Pierre Cazaubon - May 1999

Eighty two years after his death, Henri, the elder brother of my Dad's mother, thus reappeared.

And with him, his history, and the history of his brothers.

Each of them had been transmitted to us as a legacy, like a deep and painful wound...

Painting of Henri Baudiment - Charcoal drawing from photography - 1920