Sunday, September 18, the Memorial Ascq 1944 offers you a musical reading of C'était avant la Nuit, a work in which André Baratte tells his father Gaston, victim of the Ascq massacre.
The story of André Baratte, son of Gaston Baratte, finds an echo in the words of Sophie Razel, autrice. It is the poignant story of an exemplary man, caught in the clutches of the tragedy of Ascq, in northern France, in April 1944. From his birth in 1898 in Ascq, a village in the North of France, to his death on April 1, 1944, the life of Gaston Baratte is emblematic in many ways. It is with the desire to leave a trace of his history that his son André Baratte co-wrote, with Sophie Razel, 76 years after the events that made the life of his father worthwhile. This book pays tribute to a committed man, faithful to the values of mutual aid and solidarity of his city and region.