Translations:CP 02890/61/en

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  1. Notably Adolphe Edme Jean Bénac (1 August 1891 - 15 December 1914), son of M. and Mme André Bénac, long-standing friends of the Proust family; sergeant in the 46e régiment d'infantrie, wounded by shell fire he died of his injuries in hospital at Thann, in Alsace (Haut-Rhin): see his death certificate. His death was announced in Le Figaro, 20 December 1914, in the "Monde et la Ville" column, and the circumstances were described on the 24th in the "Monde et la Ville" column.