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Guide to the André Jeunet Collection,
2004_003.xml Guide to the André Jeunet Collection, 1915 - 1919 Processed by Susan Finley; machine-readable finding aid created by Rachel I. Howard Special Collections 2010 Special Collections University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6752 Fax: (502) 852-8734 Email: Special.Collections@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/special/ University of Louisville. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying. Date of source: 2010-01-27 Description is in English. Guide to the André Jeunet Collection, 1915 - 1919 Contact Information Special Collections University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-6752 Fax: (502) 852-8734 Email: Special.Collections@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/special/ Processed by: Susan Finley Finding aid completed by: 2010-01-27 Encoded by: Rachel I. Howard Copyright 2010 University of Louisville. All rights reserved. 205 online items André Jeunet Collection, 1915 - 1919 2004.003 Jeunet, André, 1896-1979 205 negatives The André Jeunet Collection is comprised of 205 flexible film negatives (1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches each) captured by French soldier André Jeunet (1896-1979) during World War I. It includes pictures of Jeunet, fellow soldiers, and civilians in northeastern France in 1915-1917 and the Balkans in 1917-1919. The photographs were taken with a Kodak vest pocket camera on 127 film. University of Louisville Libraries, Special Collections. The negatives were donated to the University of Louisville by Cécile Jeunet Spalding in 2003 so that they would be preserved for use by future students of history. Mrs. Spalding also provided the university with translated excerpts from both a diary that Jeunet kept during World War I and letters he sent to his family. The André Jeunet Collection is open for research. 2004.003: [identification of item], André Jeunet Collection, University of Louisville Special Collections. The images are available in the University of Louisville Digital Collections at http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/jeunet/. World War, 1914-1918 Soldiers Campaigns & battles World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front World War, 1914-1918--France Balkan Peninsula Macedonia France Europe Born in Bourg-la-Reine, a suburb south of Paris, on September 20, 1896, André Jeunet was drafted into the French army when he was eighteen years old and served as a Simple Soldat from March 1915 to April 1919. He trained in Autun and, even though he was an avowed pacifist, fought in the trenches with the 139e Régiment d'Infanterie at Somme, Verdun, and Chaulnes in France, and later with the 34e Régiment d'Infanterie Coloniale near Monastir in the Balkans. After World War I, Jeunet worked as an architect and married Aimée Révil-Signorat with whom he had one child, Cécile, born in 1924. When Cécile was a teenager, Jeunet was drafted back into the French army serving once again as a Simple Soldat, this time in World War II. Near the end of that war, Cécile met her future husband, Richard Spalding, an American stationed in Paris with the U.S. Air Force. The couple married and, in 1949, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where Spalding became a professor of music at the University of Louisville. André and Aimée Jeunet followed the Spaldings to Kentucky and officially immigrated to the United States in 1958. André continued his architectural career with several Louisville firms, including Joseph & Joseph. He died in Louisville on September 3, 1979, and his wife passed away in 1990.