Translations:CP 02924/16/en
- ↑ Nicolas Cottin, Proust's valet, was called up mid-August 1914. Proust had already passed on his news to Eugénie in a previous letter: "Nicolas is in the East, I don't know exactly where." (CP 05416; Cher ami..., p. 350, BPRS 59 - see note 3 above). He died in the saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, 4 July 1916, from pleurisy contracted at the front (see his record in the military recruitment register, as well as his record for other ranks "Memorial for men", in the category "Did not die for France"). [PK, PW]