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André MAILLET 1877-1953
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Memories of Marguerite Maillet:
"André Maillet, born on 23 April 1877, studied at the high school until 1895, began at the School of Industrial Arts in Reims, his preparation for the school of Fine Arts, section of architecture. His studies were interrupted by typhoid fever in 1898, then by a year of military service to the 132nd regiment. entered the school of Fine Arts, he came out with the diploma of the government (architect "DPLG"). He settled in Lille as an architect. 1907 and married in 1910 with Clotilde Cottiau daughter of a notary of the Cateau (North). (Tante Clotilde was from Sarry, where his parents lived the castle, later bought by Henri Maillet.)
He had a son, Robert, born in May 1914, and was mobilized at the beginning of the war in the 46th Territory.He was assigned successively to the Troyes station, then to the automobile service and finally appointed as an engineer where he served as cantonment officers on the Champagne front.
He then had Jean and Marguerite and continued his profession as an architect in Lille.

They had three children. Robert, born in 1914
                             Jean, born in 1923
                             Marguerite, born in 1924, wife ROHART in Reims, 2 children (of whom Christian Rohart born in 1954)

We kept letters from André Maillet and Clotilde Maillet:
on 28 January 1916, 16 February 1916, and 20 February 1916He is with military trucks in Athis near Epernay where his brother Georges Maillet is.11 March 1916He wrote from Mont de Marsan, evacuated for illness. 16 April 1916He wrote from Paris.
Letter by Aunt Clotilde, written in Lille in 1918, under German occupation and telling of their misfortunes.
See also: L4 April 1919 The Andrés returned to the village for reconstruction after the end of the war.
2 letters from Clotilde to Suzanne Rougier, 6 September 1932 and 17 January 1936


A few letters after 1940:
18 January 1942, André writes to his niece Suzanne Rougier (an interzone map)
30 December 1943, André writes to Marguerite Maillet, her sister-in-law
1 May 1944, André writes to his niece Suzanne Rougier
1 January 1945, André writes to the Rougier
22 April 1945 and 19 January 1946, letters from André to Marguerite Maillet
26 September 1952 A letter to Marguerite Maillet, he evokes the difficulties of life, with his 75th birthday:
"no one pays, we can't expect anything!"
2 May 1953, last letter from André (who will leave us that year) to Marguerite Maillet
27 September 1953, letter from Clotilde to Marguerite Maillet

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