Translations:CP 02892/13/en
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- ↑ Proust apparently refers to the information published in Le Figaro from 4 January 1915, p. 3, in the section “Le Monde & la Ville, Deuil” [The World & the city, Mourning], recounting the tribute paid at the Palais de justice by the president of the Bar to the forty members of the Bar who died for their country, among which was the name of Victor Scheikévitch, the former secretary of the Conference of lawyers. The same information, with a less exhaustive list of names, is given in L'Intransigeant from 5 January 1915, p. 2, in the section “Nos Échos” [News in brief]. Proust is referring to the addressee’s brother. Posted as second lieutenant with the 103rd infantry regiment, he was killed on 15 September 1914 in Tracy-le-Val (Oise), not long after being selected for promotion to the rank of captain. (See his dossier in the database of the portal Mémoire des hommes.) [PK, JE, NM]