On the way back to Les Sables, we pass by an impressive building at the edge of town -- a former seminary that had been converted to a German barracks.  Our bus driver Gérard, an old friend of WVU-V, explains this history and tells of the pranks his parents and grand-parents played on the occupiers when they were kids in occupied France.  Some tricks were simple annoyances, some were serious threats to life and limb.  One thing is for sure:  after four years as foreign occupiers of French soil, a lot of German soldiers were ready to go home by the time 1944 rolled around.