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Auguste Gallais, his father, wrote to the mayor of bouchavesne,
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and convinced him to build a huge roadside cross
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dedicated to the memory of the men of Bouchavesne, and dedicated to Maurice himself.
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So, as you can see at this stage
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the personal grief is already deeply inter-twined with the public collective one.
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In 1922 Berthe Gallais decided also to transform Maurice's room into a kind of mausoleum.
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Some ground from the battlefield, from the Somme, was brought back to creil
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and exposed in a room, along with--
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I don't know if you can see that here clearly
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- with fragments of shells and other material souvenir of the Great War.
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Behind the cabinet's window, Maurice Gallais' uniform
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with the ruby red pants of 1914,