It is October of 1919 and Mathilde visits Therese Gaignard, the wife of the late Six-Soux. Therese has been dating a man whom she will soon marry; she has two daughters to raise and she believes that Six-Soux would have approved of her decision. Six-Soux was a generous man who loved bicycles and was the mechanic for Garrigour, the man who won the Tour de France in 1911.
Mathilde's letter to the wife of That Man, as she and Esperanza refer to Benoit Notre-Dame, was returned with the notation that she no longer lived at that address. Mathilde is not one to give up, and so she writes the mayor, and the village priest answers. He writes that he married Benoit and Mariette and knew them since they were children, both wards.....
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