Translations:CP 02924/27/en

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  1. The young Thierry-Mieg whose death Proust had learned about in the press could only be Jean Thierry-Mieg, born 10 September 1890, son of M. and Mme Auguste Thierry-Mieg, therefore a nephew (and not son) of the family for whom Eugénie Lémel had worked. Sergeant in the 15e bataillon de chasseurs, he had been killed 4 February 1915 at the battle of Uffholtz in Alsace, according to his entry in the database "Mémoire des hommes" [Memorial for the men]. His death was announced in Le Temps, 2 March 1915, p. 4, under the column "Nécrologie" [Obituaries], and in Le Journal, 3 March 1915, p. 4, under the column "Morts au champ d'honneur" [Died on the field of honour]. A more detailed obituary had appeared in Le Journal de Genève, 27 February 1915, p. 4; Proust also read this daily paper regularly during the war. [PK, PW, FL]