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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: fires. By night they buried their beloved in the cemetery of Pere-
Lachaise; Horace Bianchon, undaunted by the difficulties, cleared them
away one after another--it was he indeed who besought the authorities
for permission to bury the fallen insurgent and confessed to his old
friendship with the dead Federalist. The little group of friends
present at the funeral with those five great men will never forget
that touching scene.
As you walk in the trim cemetery you will see a grave purchased in
perpetuity, a grass-covered mound with a dark wooden cross above it,
and the name in large red letters--MICHEL CHRESTIEN. There is no other
monument like it. The friends thought to pay a tribute to the sternly
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