HYACINTHE
Finding her son, Hyacinthe, 69, hanged, Mme. Ranvier, of Bussy-Saint-Georges, was so depressed she could not cut him down.
M. OLIVE
What?! Children perched on his wall?! With eight rounds M. Olive, property owner in Toulon, forced them to scramble down all bloodied.
BAUDET
On the riverbank at Saint-Cloud were found the saber and uniform of Baudet, the soldier who disappeared the 11th. Murder, suicide, or hoax?
SCOUARNEC
In Le Havre, a sailor, Scouarnec, threw himself under a locomotive. His intestines were gathered up in a cloth.
MME ROGER
Lit by her son, 5, a signal flare burst under the skirts of Mme. Roger, of Clichy; damages were considerable.
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From Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante. Translation © 2007 by Luc Sante. Used by permission of New York Review Books.
