page_title: Villennes-sur-Seine
section_title: War Requisitions
hierarchical_section_title: Villennes-sur-Seine / History / World War I / War Requisitions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kriederdenkmal für die Gefallen des Ersten und Zweiten Weltkriegs in Villennes-sur-Seine
context_page_description: Villennes-sur-Seine is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
  Villennes-sur-Seine is located in the Seine Valley just 30 km/20 miles west of Paris. The charming leafy village offers bed and breakfast a rural and relaxed atmosphere while being only a 22-minute train ride away from Paris. The village itself offers an eleventh-century church and ancient grottos. Easy train or auto access allows visitors to reach Versailles, Central Paris and other destinations in the city in just minutes.
context_section_description: Since the beginning of the war, Villennes-sur-Seine is forced to contributed to the nourishment of the army—both men and horses. The mayor attempts to opposite these requisitions as the crops from the only farm in Villennes-sur-Seine are hardly enough for to sustain the needs of the town.
  Nonetheless, requisitions for wheat, hay and potatoes only increase.
  Moreover, as the war continues, crops are hard to collect as the young men are at war. Therefore, Mr. Laumonier asks to prolong the recruitment of the farmers in Villennes-sur-Seine. He would also bring in soldiers to farm the smaller farms, for harvest season or to pick potatoes and beetroots. For the harvest of 1915, at least twenty soldiers were called.
  As the war continues, Villennes-sur-Seine is faced with a wheat shortage. Wheat being the most important crop in the commune, the requisitions demanded by the state cannot be met by the farmers in the town. Once all the wheat is requissioned from the Maroles farm, Mr. Laumonier gets crops brought in from Saint Germain-en-Laye to feed the villagers.
caption: Monument in honor of the men who lost their lives in World War I
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