Translations:CP 02924/5/en
I thank you a thousand times for your letter and the ever so tender feelings that you share with me[1]. The arduous consequences of my problems are too complicated for me to speak of to you in a letter. I have good news about Monsieur Robert[2], of M. Hahn[3], and of Nicolas[4]. But, naturally, we will never know what tomorrow will hold. Antoine’s son has left but is not yet on the firing line[5]. Many of my friends have been killed, but I do not know whether you are acquainted with them. Among the people who came to the house in your time, young Bénac was killed[6], little Tirman and little Catusse were injured[7], Madame Berge’s son (the daughter of Félix Faure) is imprisoned in Germany (I learned in the latest news that he is believed to have been killed) [8], little Derbanne[9] and M. de Fénelon were killed[10]. I cannot tell you what sadness the deaths of young people so full of bravery caused me. Monsieur de Fénelon was at the French Legation in Norway[11]. The government had asked him to stay there, but he insisted upon enlisting and going into the trenches. His sister, the Marquise de Montebello, had had her young husband killed by lightning three years earlier[12]. All of this enormous fortune will go to no-one. But money is meaningless. What was admirable about the Comte de Fénelon was his heart, his marvellous intelligence. You might recall that we went to Holland together [13].
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