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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,
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some photographs here representing the young man.
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It's a curious gathering of personal belongings and remains from the war which reveal,
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according to me, a kind of fetishism.
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But that's not all.