| Show DIED TOGETHER A Recent Ceremony Recalls a Dramatic Incident In-cident of the FrancoGerman War A ceremony has just taken place at Sainte Genevieve des Bois in the Seine etOise which recalls a painfully dramatic dra-matic incident in the FrancoGerman war The conscripts of the department assembled to place wreaths on the graves of Andre Delorme a young French soldier sol-dier and his sweetheart Jeanne Bernier Delorme who was only 19 years of age had been wounded in the war at Choisy leRoy so that having been invalided he returned to his native plac The Germans were then occupying Sainte Genevieve Jt1t1Jr The first place he went to so the French account runs was the home of his sweetheart On approaching it he vas surprised to hear her screaming The door was shut so that he burst open a window and thus got into the house when he found the eirl sfriinrrlinfr with a drunken GermanofficerMad Q with rage the young Frenchman shot the German and for this he was seized and summarily shot without even a court martial trial Half a dozen German soldiers placed him against a wall and pointed their rifles at him At that moment the young girl rushed forward toward her sweetheart sweet-heart and the two lovers were shot dead together Their tomb bears the inscriptions inscrip-tions Andre Delorme died for his country 1870 Jeanne Bernier killed by the enemy 1870Paris Herald |
