Part 16 (2/2)

A few hours before the service took place, Major Garibaldi, sent by General Anthoine, coht to the Guynemer family the twenty-sixth citation of their hero, the famous document which all French schoolboys have since learned by heart and which was as follows:

Fallen on the field of honor on Septeendary hero, fallen from the very zenith of victory after three years'

hard and continuous fighting He will be considered the most perfect ey and perseverance and his exalted gallantry Full of invincible belief in victory, he has bequeathed to the French soldier an i spirit and will surely give rise to the noblest emulation

On the reat days of August, 1914, the Chamber decided on October 19 that the naraven on the walls of the Pantheon Two letters, to follow beloere read by M Lasies, to whom they had been written One came from Lieutenant Raymond, temporary co the honor to command Escadrille 3 in the absence of Captain Heurtaux, still wounded in hospital, I a Storks, for what you are doing for the memory of Guynemer

He was our friend as well as our chief and teacher, our pride and our flag, and his loss will be felt more than any that has thinned our ranks so far

Please be sure that our courage has not been laid loith hie will be merciless and victorious

May Guyne our aerial battles, that we ht the fla Escadrille 3

The other letter came from Major Brocard:

My dear Coht you have had of giving the highest consecration to Guynemer's memory by a ceremony at the Pantheon

It had occurred to all of us that only the lofty dos

The poor boy fell in the fullness of triumph, with his face towards the enemy A few days before he had sworn to me that the Germans should never take hilorious than that of the gunner defending his gun, the infantry out of his trench, or even that of the poor soldier perishi+ng in the bogs But Guynemer was known to all There were feho had not seen hi on his frail linen wings some of their own faith, their own dreams, and all that their souls could hold of trust and hope

It was for theunners or pioneers, that he fought with the bitter hatred he felt for the invader, with his youthful daring and the joys of his triumphs He knew that the battle would end fatally for hi also that his war-bird was the instru that his example called forth the noblest imitation, he remained true to his idea of self-sacrifice which he had for time before, and which he saw develop with perfect calm

Full of reatness of his duties, he possessed the national qualities of endurance, perseverance, indifference to danger, and to these he added ahis short life he had not ti, or disillusionht fro the history of France to where he hie to it

He went to the war driven by a ht to be respected

He was a powerful thought living in a body so delicate that I, who lived so close beside hiht

The poor boy! Other boys froendary ideal, and they felt all his eers To the copy of the heroes whose exploits they read in their books His name is constantly on their lips, for they love hilories of France

_Monsieur le depute_, gain admittance for him to the Pantheon, where he has already been placed by the s will not be out of place, for under that doave us our France, they will be the symbol of those who have defended her for us

Major Brocard