Father and Son


The town of in North Western France

Has a rather ornate railway station

It is run mainly by Marcel and Marcel Le Paul

The older Marcel took over the running of the station

From his father Marcel who was injured in the war

The youngest Marcel began his duties even years ago

On his graduation from the university in

Neither his father or his grandfather went to university

Although his younger sister Soelle trained to be an architect

She is currently engaged in the Bas en Gullle project in Paris

The railway station at has two claims to fame

The poet Charles le Sop wrote his famous DaDa Manifesto

Whilst employed at the station in the nineteen-thirties

He was also responsible for the design of the flower garden nearby

Late in the war the German general Seobold surrendered in the Tunnel de poivre noir

Tunnel de poivre noir He was my late father My name is Madeleine And I live in Berlin