Location: Cimetière Français de Saint-Remy-la-Calonne, Saint-Remy-la-Calonne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Cause of death: Killed in Action
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by Alain-Fournier
French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes / The Lost Estate
(1913), which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.
Alain-Fournier died fighting near Vaux-lès-Palameix on the 22nd of September 1914. His body remained unidentified until 1991, at which time he was interred in the cemetery of Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.
Most of the writing of Alain-Fournier was published posthumously: Miracles (a volume of poems and essays) in 1924, his correspondence with Jacques Rivière in 1926 and his letters to his family in 1930.
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