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Victor Oury and the Paris siege honor test
A sixteen year old boy captured with insurgents before a Versailles siege is spared death to prove his honor. He asks to see his dying mother, pledges to return in one hour, and fulfills the promise after a tearful reunion, proving true courage and filial devotion.
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Versailles
Eleventh Arrondissement
St. Denis
Urelin
Bourget
Allons
Elas
Victor
Mercy
Strand Magazine
Illinois Steel Company
Jupiter
Neptune
Urasius
Earth
Venus
Mara
Great Pyramids
Assouan
Nile
San Francisco
Sierra Nevada
le Journal Des Debata
Paris
Belfort
Strasburg
Nature
France
Roough