The Never Laughing Man of the French War Memory
An elderly American writer recalls a friend who lies in a Rheims graveyard near Abbe Castel. The piece tells how Jean Bernard, a sailor and veteran, never laughed after a 1814 Paris street battle, detailing his youth in Nancy, a Prussian assault, a brain fever, and a life shaped by travel and loss, ending with a vivid scene aboard a steamer and later gatherings in Mainz.
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