雷伊父子是第一次世界大战期间的普通法国人。父亲维克多17岁时参加巴黎公社,后来加入过朱阿夫兵团(法国轻步兵)和法国殖民军,做过《正义》杂志的编辑,并参与创办《黑猫》报。1914年8月2日,战争爆发那天,已经62岁的维克多在多尔多涅省米西当自家花园里给惟一的儿子罗贝尔写信:“我的儿子,我亲爱的儿子,今早我给你写信之时,警报大概已经敲响了。如 Rei father and son were ordinary French during the First World War. Father Victor, who joined the Paris Commune at the age of 17, later joined the Jufair Corps (French Light Infantry) and the French Colonial Army as editor of Justice magazine and was involved in the founding of the Black Cat newspaper. On August 2, 1914, on the day of the war, Victor, 62, wrote to Robert Bell, the only son in his home garden in Moses, Dordogne: "My son, my dear son, today As early as I wrote to you, the alarm had probably been sounded