Translations:CP 02924/17/en

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  1. Several months earlier Proust had already sent news to Eugénie Lemel about this young man: "Antoine's son is leaving in the next few days". (CP 05416; Cher ami..., p. 350, BRS 59). This refers to André Yves (or Yvon) Bertholom, born 26 October 1895 at Rosporden (Finistère), son of Antoine and Louise Bertholom, the concierges for 102, boulevard Haussmann (see their biographical details on the Corr-Proust website). According to his papers in the military recruitment register, he had been enlisted on 27 December 1914 to the 42e Régiment d'infanterie, then he was reassigned to the 3 June 1915 to the 146e Régiment d'infanterie; wounded in the ankle by shrapnel on 4 July 1915, after several months of hospital treatment and convalescence, he had to move to the artillery then to tanks. A letter from Proust of December 1914 (CP 02854; Kolb, XIII, no. 203) informs us that Antoine's son was then at the "Avor camp": only being nineteen years of age he was probably undergoing his period of military training. André Bertholom survived the war (see his biographical details on the Corr-Proust website). [PK, PW, FL]