Translations:CP 02924/18/en

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  1. Jean Bénac, a young lawyer, was the son of André and Edmée Bénac, old friends of the Proust family. He was killed by a shell on 15 December 1914, at Thann, in Alsace (see his military record in the database "Mémoire des hommes" [Memorial to the men]). Jean Bénac may have perhaps served as a model for the character of Robert de Saint-Loup during the war (see Pyra Wise, "Jean Bénac dans l'Enfer de la Grande Guerre : une source de Robert de Saint-Loup au front" [Jean Bénac in the Hell of the Great War: a source for Robert de Saint-Loup at the front], Quaderni Proustiani, no. 12, 2018, pp. 113-140). [PK, PW, FL]