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Colonel Marc GERBER (Ecuisses, in Saône-et-Loire 1894-1974), French politician, deputy then senator of the Seine (1945-1948) and vice-president of the Council of the Republic (1947), manager of an alfalfa flour factory located in Laversine, in the Aisne, of which he was a municipal councilor in 1926. Important correspondence-archive of this veteran of the First World War, mobilized in 1914 and 1939, and taken prisoner in 1940, who escaped at the beginning of 1941, and joined the FFL. He received the Croix de Guerre for both World Wars. He had two sons Gérard and Jacques, born in Blanzy-les-Fismes. First, there is a typed letter signed by General de GAULLE, dated November 17, 1949, congratulating "his dear Gerber" on the marriage of his son Jacques (1 page in-4), as well as an autograph letter signed by the mayor of Villers-en-Prayères, Jean Pelletier, on the same subject, a signed and autographed photo-card of Marlene Dietrich, a typed letter on the letterhead of the Marshal of France, dated July 30, 1930, informing Gerber, then mayor of Laversine, that "Marshal Pétain, in order to be agreeable to him, will willingly give satisfaction to his request", and an autograph letter signed by General Daugan, dated July 26, 1930, thanking him for his welcome in Soissons. The archive includes more than 300 letters from Marc Gerber and his family, or addressed to them, between the years 1940 and 1955, sometimes with envelopes and stamps, testifying to the difficult living conditions at that time, between occupation, exile and other facts of war, of this Picardy family dispersed in North Africa, in the United States, among others. We discover in particular his correspondence as a prisoner of war in Germany at the end of 1940 (19 cards stamped "occupied territory"), or this letter in May 1940 where he writes to his wife "1914 was a small affair next to this one", telegrams, but also official documents (mission orders, transport orders, cards of the Union of the escaped or of identity...). He also evokes the losses suffered by his farm during the wars, his patents for agricultural machinery, etc. Accompanying this important archive is a handwritten notebook "Journal d'un Rhétoricien année 42-43", probably written by his son Jacques, then a student bomber in the air force, embellished with cartoons and recording his impressions from day to day, in particular on November 11, 1942 "we are currently living in the most troubled hours that France has ever known.Germany is totally invading France, the situation is serious", another handwritten notebook of Jacques, this time younger, a schoolboy; business cards, religious pictures, menus, etc.
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Colonel Marc GERBER (Ecuisses, in Saône-et-Loire 1894-1974), French politician, deputy then senator of the Seine (1945-1948) and vice-president of the Council of the Republic (1947), manager of an alfalfa flour factory located in Laversine, in the Aisne, of which he was a municipal councilor in 1926. Important correspondence-archive of this veteran of the First World War, mobilized in 1914 and 1939, and taken prisoner in 1940, who escaped at the beginning of 1941, and joined the FFL. He received the Croix de Guerre for both World Wars. He had two sons Gérard and Jacques, born in Blanzy-les-Fismes. First, there is a typed letter signed by General de GAULLE, dated November 17, 1949, congratulating "his dear Gerber" on the marriage of his son Jacques (1 page in-4), as well as an autograph letter signed by the mayor of Villers-en-Prayères, Jean Pelletier, on the same subject, a signed and autographed photo-card of Marlene Dietrich, a typed letter on the letterhead of the Marshal of France, dated July 30, 1930, informing Gerber, then mayor of Laversine, that "Marshal Pétain, in order to be agreeable to him, will willingly give satisfaction to his request", and an autograph letter signed by General Daugan, dated July 26, 1930, thanking him for his welcome in Soissons. The archive includes more than 300 letters from Marc Gerber and his family, or addressed to them, between the years 1940 and 1955, sometimes with envelopes and stamps, testifying to the difficult living conditions at that time, between occupation, exile and other facts of war, of this Picardy family dispersed in North Africa, in the United States, among others. We discover in particular his correspondence as a prisoner of war in Germany at the end of 1940 (19 cards stamped "occupied territory"), or this letter in May 1940 where he writes to his wife "1914 was a small affair next to this one", telegrams, but also official documents (mission orders, transport orders, cards of the Union of the escaped or of identity...). He also evokes the losses suffered by his farm during the wars, his patents for agricultural machinery, etc. Accompanying this important archive is a handwritten notebook "Journal d'un Rhétoricien année 42-43", probably written by his son Jacques, then a student bomber in the air force, embellished with cartoons and recording his impressions from day to day, in particular on November 11, 1942 "we are currently living in the most troubled hours that France has ever known.Germany is totally invading France, the situation is serious", another handwritten notebook of Jacques, this time younger, a schoolboy; business cards, religious pictures, menus, etc.
