French to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting painter's life

I'm unclear about "repli" in this sentence. I'm assuming "exode" refers to people fleeing south from the north of France during the German invasion. The family's home was near Toulouse in the south of France, so why would they be affected by northerners fleeing (unless this means that family members from elsehwere in France joined the painter, who was in his 80s in 1940). Thanks, Karen

"C'est probablement une des dernieres oeuvres d'Henri Martin: la colonne avec la statue (que est un bronze de Bouchard) n'a ete placee la par les fils du peintre qu'apres le repli de la familly a Marquayrol apres l'exode, donc la toile est au plus tot de l'ete, ou plutot, vu la couleur de la vigne vierge de la pergola au fond, de l'automne 1940."