Translations:CP 02924/16/en
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- ↑ Nicolas Cottin, Proust's valet, was called up mid-August 1914. Proust had already passed on his news to Eugénie Lémel in a previous letter: "Nicolas is in the East, I don't know exactly where." (CP 05416; Cher ami..., p. 350, BPRS 59 - see note 3 above). He died in the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, 4 July 1916, from pleurisy contracted at the front (see his record in the military recruitment register, as well in the database "Mémoire des hommes" [Memorial to the men], in the category "Did not die for France"). [PK, PW]