[MANUSCRIT]. [MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE]. [NANCY] - Lot 228

[MANUSCRIT]. [MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE]. [NANCY] [BAS-RHIN]. [REICHSHOFFEN]. [HUFFEL (Family) and SINGER (Family)]. Memories and stories of the family, life of Jean Huffel (1896-1918) In French, manuscript on paper, full of photographs and miscellaneous documents France, Lorraine (Nancy), dated February 4, 1929 Large in-4° register, 239 pp. interleaved with pages of photographs, maps and miscellaneous documents (newsletters, correspondence, cards, dried flowers, etc.). Bound in black chagrined percaline, smooth spine, gilt lettering: "Souvenirs. 1 ". Dimensions: 300 x 225 mm. A moving document compiled by a father for his descendants, recounting the life of his son Jean Huffel, who fell for France in 1918, and the family's highlights. Gustave Huffel wrote the autograph text in his fine handwriting, and illustrated it with photographs, newsletters, letters, maps and other memorabilia. The document is interesting not only for Lorraine (Nancy), but also for Alsace, with several passages relating to the Singer family's Alsatian origins and their links with Reichshoffen (Bas-Rhin). Jean Marie Joseph Huffel was born in Nancy on October 14, 1896, the younger brother of Suzanne Huffel. In 1914, he was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Agronomique, but the outbreak of war brought his studies to an abrupt halt. A corporal in the 32nd Infantry Regiment, he was wounded on June 9, 1918 during the Battle of Compiègne and reported missing. Taken prisoner, he was transferred to the hospital in the German camp at Griesheim, some 600 kilometers away, where he died of his wounds on June 29, 1918. He was 21 years old. Jean Huffel's parents were Gustave Huffel (1859-1935) (family from Soultz-sous-Forêts (Bas-Rhin), then settled in Nancy), honorary sub-director and former professor at the Ecole Nationale des Eaux et Forêts (Nancy) and Julie-Louise Singer, born in Reichshoffen (Bas-Rhin), Alsace. The Singer family (not related to that of the founder of Singer machines) is a well-to-do Alsatian family, occupying a house known as Maison Singer-Besson in Reichshoffen. The Huffel-Singer couple had two children, Suzanne (who married Paul Noël, born January 2, 1882 in Bicqueley, Meurthe-et-Moselle, son of General Joseph Ulysse Noël and Aimée Zoé Prugneaux) and Jean Huffel. The Huffel-Singer couple and their two children settle at 13 rue des Bégonias in Nancy. The Singer-Vaucourt family (aunt and uncle of the young Jean Huffel) lived for the most part in the wealthy house known as "Prieuré Saint-Georges" in Bourg-de-Batz (Loire-Atlantique), mentioned in this register.