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You have now been sleeping for many years in the Cemetery of Mont- Parnasse, under a plain slab bearing the epitaph: CI-GIT ARISTIDE VICTOR MALDENT, Capitaine d'Infanterie, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. But such, Captain, was not the inscription devised by yourself to be placed above those old bones of yours knocked about so long on fields of battle and in haunts of pleasure.
My mother's eldest brother, Victor Maldent, and infantry captain retired on half-pay in 1814, and disbanded in 1815 aggravated by his bad attitude the situation in which the fall of the Empire had placed my father. Captain Victor used to shout in the cafes and the public balls that the Bourbons had sold France to the Cossacks.
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