Translations:CP 05409/11/en

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↑ After serving a year of military service in Orleans as a volunteer enlisted man from 15 November 1889, until 14 November 1890, Proust had been appointed a reserve officer in the administration with an posting to the Service de Santé du Gouvernement militaire de Paris, and then he was transferred to the armée territoriale on 1 October 1908. But thanks to the influence of his friend Gaston Calmette, director of Le Figaro, brother of Dr. Émile Calmette, Medical Inspector, Director of the Service de Santé du Gouvernement militaire de Paris, he had been crossed off from the reserve officers' ranks on 30 August 1911 "by presidential decision" without appearing before a medical board: see his military file and the letter of the Medical Inspector Émile Calmette of 6 September 1911 to Proust (CP 02225; Kolb, X, no. 168). See also the letter to Léon Bailby of [9 December 9 1914] in which he summarizes his military situation (CP 05405 and the notes 5, 6, 9 and 10). On 16 September 1914, he could have read in Le Journal des Débats dated the 17th, p. 2, in the article "Les réformés et exemptés" (The discharged and exempted), that by virtue of a decree taken on the 15th by the Ministère de la Guerre, that the discharged or exempted men of the classifications that were still under military obligations had to report to the town hall of their place of residence and would be summoned from 7 October to be examined by a Review Board. (Information also provided by Le Figaro of 17 September 17, p. 1). Proust seems to have returned from Cabourg at the beginning of October in fear of this summons: see the letter to Mme Catusse of around [15 September 1914] (CP 02824; Kolb, XIII, no. 173). [LJ, FP, FL]

[n2-1] After serving a year of military service in Orleans as a volunteer enlisted man from 15 November 1889, until 14 November 1890, Proust had been appointed a reserve officer in the administration with an posting to the Service de Santé du Gouvernement militaire de Paris, and then he was transferred to the armée territoriale on 1 October 1908. But thanks to the influence of his friend Gaston Calmette, director of Le Figaro, brother of Dr. Émile Calmette, Medical Inspector, Director of the Service de Santé du Gouvernement militaire de Paris, he had been crossed off from the reserve officers' ranks on 30 August 1911 "by presidential decision" without appearing before a medical board: see his military file and the letter of the Medical Inspector Émile Calmette of 6 September 1911 to Proust (CP 02225; Kolb, X, no. 168). See also the letter to Léon Bailby of [9 December 9 1914] in which he summarizes his military situation (CP 05405 and the notes 5, 6, 9 and 10). On 16 September 1914, he could have read in Le Journal des Débats dated the 17th, p. 2, in the article "Les réformés et exemptés" (The discharged and exempted), that by virtue of a decree taken on the 15th by the Ministère de la Guerre, that the discharged or exempted men of the classifications that were still under military obligations had to report to the town hall of their place of residence and would be summoned from 7 October to be examined by a Review Board. (Information also provided by Le Figaro of 17 September 17, p. 1). Proust seems to have returned from Cabourg at the beginning of October in fear of this summons: see the letter to Mme Catusse of around [15 September 1914] (CP 02824; Kolb, XIII, no. 173). [LJ, FP, FL]

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Translations:CP 05409/11/en

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