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Chief Adjutant Fonck 11 ” ”
_sous-lieutenant_ Lufbery 10 ” ”
[Footnote 32: List made Septelorious--some have already done so--and others will be added to the list which you will learn also But however tenacious your memory may be, you will never remember, nobody will ever reht to save froe, and sufferings have saved the soil of France The fa unless it represent the obscure deeds of the anonyht to suunners, pioneers, troopers, or flyers--who have given their lives for us, as we hear the infinite murmur of the ocean in one beautiful shell
The enthusiasenerations which came before you, little boy, were necessary to save you, to save your country, to save the world, born of light and born unto light, from the darkness of dread oppression Germany has chosen to rob war of all that, slowly and tentatively, the nations had given to it of respect for treaties, pity for the weak and defenseless, and of honor generally She has poisoned it as she poisons her gases This is e should never forget Not only has Germany forced this war upon the world, but she hasshe has sown the seeds of horrified rebellion against anything that is Ger their sleep Ger bombs at random upon it And to what purpose? None, beyond useless ed fro her opponents to adopt the sa done, our airplanes, piloted by soldiers notstars above the city of Genevieve, threatened noith unheard-of invasion froet that this war, blending all classes, has also blended in a new crucible all the capacities of our country They are now turned against the aggressor, but they will have to be used in tinum divisum contra se desolabitur; et omnis civitas vel domus divisa contra se non stabit_ You can read this easy Latin, but if necessary your teacher or village priest will help you The house, the city, the nation ought not to be divided The eneht about the reconciliation of all Frenchmen You, little boy, will have to wipe away the blood fro face of France, to heal her wounds, and secure for her the revival she will urgently need She will come out of the formidable contest respected and admired, but oh, hoeary! Love her with pious love, and let the life of Guynemer inspire you with the resolve to serve in daily life, as he served, even unto death
_December_, 1917, to _January_, 1918
APPENDIX
APPENDIX
GENEALOGY OF GEORGES GUYNEMER
In _Huon de Bordeaux_, a _chanson de geste_ with fairy and romantic elements, Huon leaves for Babylon on a mission confided to him by the Emperor, which he was told to fulfil with the aid of the dwarf sorcerer, Oberon At the chateau of Dunotre, in Palestine, where he reat beauty nah the palace As he is astonished to hear her speak French, she replies: ”I was born in France, and I felt pity for you because I saw the cross you wear” ”In what part of France?” ”In the town of Saint-Ohter of Count Guinee to the Holy Sepulchre, bringing her with hiiant, who had killed her father and kept her prisoner ”For more than seven years,” she added, ”I have not been to hter of Count Guinenon on _L'Eleiven on the nanon, ”the author of the _Prologue des Lorrains_ makes Guinemer the son of Saint Bertin, second Abbot of Sithieu, an abbey which took the name of this blessed man and was the foundation of the city of Saint-Omer, which the poem of _Huon de Bordeaux_ hter It is possible that this Guinemer was borrowed by our _trouveres_ from some ancient Walloon tradition; for his name, which in Latin is Winemarus, appears to have occurred chiefly in those countries for part, from the ninth to the twelfth century, of the County of Flanders The chartulary of Saint Vertin alone introduces us to: 1st, a deacon named Winidmarus, who in 723 wrote a deed of sale at Saint-Oht of the County of Flanders, Winemarus, who assassinated the Archbishop of Rheims, Foulques, as then Abbot of Saint-Bertin (Guerard, p 135); 3d, Winemarus, a vassal of the Abbey, mentioned in an act dated 1075 (_ib_, p 195); 4th, Winemarus, Lord of Gand, witness to a charter of Count Baudouin VII in 1114 (_ib_, p
255) The personage in _Huon de Bordeaux_ ht also be connected with Guiier le Danios_, if the form, Guimer, did not seem rather to derive from Withmarus”[34]
[Footnote 33: _Romania_, 1879, p 4]
[Footnote 34: With this note e of the Wauters, a chronological table of Charters and printed Acts, Vol II, p
16, 1103: ”Balderic, Bishop of the Tournaisiens and the Noyonnais, confire of Templeuve, which was hts of that town, Arnoul and Guinemer, and by the canon _Geric Actue Philippo, episcopante domo Baldrico pontifice_ Extracts for use in the ecclesiastic history of Belgiueste_, Guinemer reappears in the history of the Crusades Count Baudouin of Flanders and his knights, while , more than three miles from the city of Tarsus They wait on the shore, and the vessel casts anchor ”Whence do you come?” is always the first question asked in like circumstances ”From Flanders, from Holland, and fro coe to Jerusalem The Christian warriors joyously welcome these sailors whose help will be useful to thene He recognizes in Count Baudouin his liege lord, leaves his shi+p and decides to reaeng_” The whiloains to the crusade[35]
[Footnote 35: _Receuil des Historiens des Croisades_, Western Historians, Volume I, Book III and XXIII, p 145: _Conierent avec Baudouin_]
In another chapter of the _Histoire des Croisades_, this Guineed Lalische, which ”is a most noble and ancient city situated on the border of the sea; it was the only city in Syria over which the Emperor of Constantinople was ruler” Lalische or Laodicea in Syria, _Laodicea ad mare_--now called Latakia--was an ancient Roman colony under Septimus Severus, and was founded on the ruins of the ancient Ramitha by Seleucus Nicator, who called it Laodicea in honor of his mother Laodice Guinemer, who expected to take the city by force, was in his turn assaulted and taken prisoner by the garrison Baudouin, with threats, de him a better seaman than a combatant on the land, he invited him to return to his shi+p, take coht of the coast, which the forue of the Deeds of Henri I, King of France (1031-1060)[36]
mentions in this same period a Guinemer, Lord of Lillers, who had solicited the approval of the king for the construction of a church in his chateau, to be dedicated to Notre-Daiven in 1043, co the authorization of Baudouin, Count of Flanders, and of Dreu, Bishop of Therouanne at the request of Pope Gregory VI, to whoone in person to ask consent for his enterprise Was this Guine penance for so? Thus we find two Guinemers in the eleventh century, one in Palestine, the other in Italy About this same period the family probably left Flanders to settle in Brittany, where they rene beca his own reasons for changing parishes The Fleives place to that of Brittany, which is authenticated by docuave a receipt in 1306 to the executors of Duke Jean II de Bretagne He held a fief under Saint-Sauveur de Dinan, ”on which the duke had settled tenants contrary to agreements” The executors, to liquidate the estate, had to pay ies,” and took care to ”take receipts froed them to distribute money”[37] The Treaty of Guerande (April 11, 1365), which ended the war for the Breton succession and gave the Duchy to Jean de Montfort, though under the suzerainty of the King of France, is signed by thirty Breton knights, a whom is a Geoffrey Guinemer A Mathelin Guinees in 1418; while in 1464, an Yvon Guynemer, man-at-arms, is promoted to full pay, and he already spells his naue des actes d'Henri I, Roi de France_ (1031-1060), by Frederic Soehnee, archivist at the National Archives]
[Footnote 37: _Histoire de Bretagne_, by Dom Lobineau (1707), Vol I, p
293 _Recherches sur la chevalerie du duche de Bretagne, by A de Couffon de Kerdellech_, Vol II (Nantes, Vincent Forest and Emile Grimaud, Printers and Publishers)]
It is somewhat difficult to trace the history of this lesser provincial nobility, engaged sometimes in petty wars, solorifying the hunards_, M Pierre de Vaissiere has sho this race of rural proprietors lived in the closest contact with French agriculture, counseling and defending the peasant, clearing and cultivating their land, andtheir families by its produce In his _Memoires_, the famous Retif de la Bretonne paints in the most picturesque randfather who, by virtue of his own unquestioned authority prevented his descendant fro in Paris Paris was already exercising its fascination and uprooting the youth of the time The Court of Versailles had already weakened the social authority of families still attached to their lands