{"id":207,"date":"2009-03-05T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T10:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/2009\/03\/05\/floirac-marcelin-prosper-1874-1915\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:24:46","slug":"floirac-marcelin-prosper-1874-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/2009\/03\/05\/floirac-marcelin-prosper-1874-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Floirac, Marcelin Prosper (1874-1915)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"pfloirac.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/pfloirac.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"pfloirac.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/pfloirac.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/pfloirac.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"pfloirac.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Le t\u00e9moin<\/strong><br \/>\nN\u00e9 \u00e0 Couzou (Lot) le 23 octobre 1874, Prosper Floirac, est agriculteur et travaille \u00e0 la ferme familiale situ\u00e9e \u00e0 B\u00e9lugue. Il est \u00e2g\u00e9 de 40 ans et n\u2019a pas d\u2019enfants lorsqu\u2019il part \u00e0 la guerre. Son fr\u00e8re et ses beaux-fr\u00e8res sont \u00e9galement mobilis\u00e9s. Soldat \u00e0 la 22e compagnie du 207e RI, Il disparait \u00e0 Perthes-les-Hurlus le 17 f\u00e9vrier 1915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Le t\u00e9moignage<\/strong><br \/>\nArchives d\u00e9partementales du Lot, <em>Lettres de Marcelin, Prosper Floirac \u00e0 sa femme Jos\u00e9phine (1914-1915)<\/em>, Gramat, 2000, 135 p. ; pr\u00e9face de Jules Maurin.<\/p>\n<p>Il s\u2019agit d\u2019une cinquantaine de lettres de Prosper Floirac adress\u00e9es \u00e0 sa femme, celles qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 retrouv\u00e9es chez la ni\u00e8ce de Jos\u00e9phine Floirac, n\u00e9e Bergougnoux.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n3. Analyse<\/strong><br \/>\nLes lettres de Prosper Floirac sont pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9es d\u2019une longue partie concernant le Quercy, le village de Couzou et pr\u00e9sente le parcours du t\u00e9moin \u00e0 la mobilisation ainsi que sur le front jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son d\u00e9c\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<p>Prosper Floirac raconte la mobilisation \u00e0 Cahors, son affectation temporaire au Payrat (Lot) et enfin son d\u00e9part pour le front. Mobilis\u00e9 \u00e0 40 ans et affect\u00e9 dans la r\u00e9serve d\u2019un r\u00e9giment d\u2019active, il vit d\u2019abord la guerre \u00e0 l\u2019arri\u00e8re, puis part au front en novembre 1914 en Champagne.<br \/>\nDans sa correspondance, il se montre tr\u00e8s attach\u00e9 \u00e0 sa femme et \u00e0 tous les siens ainsi qu\u2019au gens de sa condition et de son causse. Le paysan qu\u2019il est, s\u2019int\u00e9resse au concret, aux \u00e9l\u00e9ments, \u00e0 la vie \u00e0 la ferme et manifeste une foi profonde. Quant \u00e0 la guerre, il n\u2019arrive pas \u00e0 croire \u00e0 une guerre courte ; il se montre un soldat \u00e0 la fois d\u00e9termin\u00e9 et r\u00e9sign\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Llosa, mars 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Le t\u00e9moin N\u00e9 \u00e0 Couzou (Lot) le 23 octobre 1874, Prosper Floirac, est agriculteur et travaille \u00e0 la ferme familiale situ\u00e9e \u00e0 B\u00e9lugue. Il est \u00e2g\u00e9 de 40 ans et n\u2019a pas d\u2019enfants lorsqu\u2019il part \u00e0 la guerre. Son fr\u00e8re et ses beaux-fr\u00e8res sont \u00e9galement mobilis\u00e9s. Soldat \u00e0 la 22e compagnie du 207e RI, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/2009\/03\/05\/floirac-marcelin-prosper-1874-1915\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Floirac, Marcelin Prosper (1874-1915)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,303,10,6],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1991-2000","category-207e-ri","category-combattant-infanterie","category-correspondance-unique","tag-amour-conjugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crid1418.org\/temoins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}