The railroad The sailors of Port Louis The War of 1939-45 The mass grave Henri Laurent, photographer After the dynamic or stormy pulsations of previous periods, the twentieth century appears as a constant depletion. Even if the train brings, at the beginning of this century, a dynamization of exchanges, people and goods, it will disappear like many of these elements of progress in front of the necessities of profitability and the rise of the automobile at the end of the second world War. The 1914-1918 war…