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It has been only partially studied for a small group of students;
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in the English case for students from Oxford and Cambridge,
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and in the French case for students from the école Normale supérieure
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who lost actually hundreds of friends during the war,
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and who used to write short but very personal biographies in the école's year book.
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Take, for example, this obituary written by the novelist Maurice Genevoix.
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You must already know him, he's one of the most famous writers of the Great War.
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So, it was written by the novelist Maurice Genevoix for one of his friends
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killed at the age of twenty-five, in January 1915,
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and I quote, "what so often during those long months of war,
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and each engagement had created voids around me.
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All the good friends at the beginning whom I'd chosen,