Sentence:  17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults' holiday home as officers' <WSD>billet</WSD>. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.