Translations:CP 03007/31/en
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- ↑ Cottin had been mobilized mid-April 1914. In December 1914, Proust wrote to his mother's former chambermaid, Eugénie Lémel: "Nicolas is in the East, I'm not sure exactly where" (CP 05416; Reiner Speck collection, BPRS no. 59, cf. Cher Ami...Votre Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz / Marcel Proust et sa correspondance. Briefe und Autographen aus der / Lettres et autographes de la Bibliotheca Proustiana Reiner Speck, Cologne, Snoeck, 2009, p. 104 et 350). Then, in Carnet 4 (f. 38 r.), Proust notes down the exact address where Cottin had been since July 1915: "Nicolas Auxiliary Military Hospital no. 16 Belley Ain". The town of Belley (Ain) is where the 133e régiment d'Infanterie were stationed (Almanach Hachette 1915, p. 201). [PK, FP, PW]