My best regards to all my comrades—I will do my duty——
Vive la France!
To Madame X——
Dear little woman:
I send you and my three little ones my last and tenderest kisses——
The weather is atrocious—The attack will begin at four forty-five this morning—I rejoin the Morocco Division immediately——
Tell my boys that I want them to be soldiers like myself——
Do not weep at my death, which is coming, it is the most beautiful end a soldier may hope for——
I thank you for having made me happy on earth: you were my first love——
I kiss your lips for the last time—When you see mother, tell her my last thoughts were of her——