Letters From a Chasseur a Pied
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INTRODUCTION When Robert Pellissier gave his life to France, there were still among his acquaintances some people who asked But why did he enlist And they frankly admitted there were some traits in his character which they did not understand. Bearing in mind these queries, I endeavored to answer them in a brief sketch written for the Williston Bulletin. This sketch, as well as a Colleagues Tribute, is reproduced here as an introduction to the Letters of a Basfeur d Pied. A. P. Dulce et decorunt est pro patria mori The Spirit of France as Portrayed in the Life of a Former Williston Teacher Killed in the Somme Offensive On September 18th news reached us that Robert Pellissier, of the French chasseurs A pied, had been killed in battle. To his family his life has been and always will be the greatest inspiration. When I think of my brothers life, the picture which rises before me is that of a young horseman coming at full speed over hill and dale, He is neither dismayed nor halted by any obstades he clears them all lightly and with a joyous Introduction shout. At the end of his course, he meets death on a battle- field, bravery fighting for France. One of Roberts chief characteristics was his profound attachment to his native land. He was born in 1882 at La Ferriire-sous-Jougne, Doubs, in the Jura Mountains, and while severe and almost tragic beauty of the fir tree forests, extending for miles over the mountainsides, was so strongly stamped on his memory that he always longed for fir cIad mountains and loved those landscapes best which came nearest to this type of natural beauty. Robert was the youngest of a family of seven children, and as his father died when he was but six years old, in the course of his life, when he came in closer contact now with one and now with another of his brothers and sisters, he eagerIy asked them for his share of the moral guidance left them by their father as their most precious heritage. Roberts father, after having Iived the greater par
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