Ages 13-15 - 71 pages, 18825 words | 2 hours 16 minutes of reading | © Éditions du Pourquoi pas, 2025, for the 1st publication - all rights reserved
Christmas 1916. Léon Malaterre is fighting in the trenches of Lorraine. The letters from Louison, his wife, help him endure this cursed war and also provide him with insight into the lives of women on the home front in his native Tarn. But Louison, a feminist ahead of her time, also sends him press articles by Marcelle Capy... This remarkable woman endured censorship for her militant writings. She speaks of peace; she supports the soldiers, defends women, and criticizes the shirkers. When she attempts to publish her book, Une voix de femme dans la Mêlée (A Woman's Voice in the Battle), the censorship responds: 'If this text had been written by a man... But if we let women speak, where will we go?'