Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was Corporal Louis Barthas Barrelmaker 1914 1918 Louis Barthas - Wikipedia The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War. : Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier ( ) by Louis BARTHAS and a … : Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier ( ) by Louis BARTHAS and a great selection of similar New. Louis Barthas (July 14, – May 4, ) was a cooper, author, socialist, and a veteran of (in French) Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, , preface by Rémy Cazals, first edition: Maspero, ; other editions . "Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Louis Barthas (July 14, – May 4, ) was a cooper, author, socialist, and a veteran of (in French) Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, , preface by Rémy Cazals, first edition: Maspero, ; other editions .