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The « poilus » were the French soldiers in the trenches. « Les poilus » really means hairy and they were named like that because it meant brave and virile in French slang. They used to write letters to their family, friends... Sometimes friends of the dead had to inform their families. Some letters can show us the hell of war such as the horror