“The newspapers devoted a lot of space to one mysterious case: the case of this young gravedigger, who was sentenced to six months in prison for desecrating a grave and has since felt mentally unwell. They intervened in the case of the late Laurent Paridal, whose name appeared at the trial of the case, the cousin of Regine Daubouzier, my wife, who was in her first marriage with G. Freddy Bejart, who died so miserably, along with most of his workers, in an explosion at his cartridge factory. Our relative, Laurent Paridal, was found at the scene of the disaster and appeared dead. God did not want him to die there! Then he would not have led such an impossible life, he would have avoided an even more miserable death by committing suicide after so many strange actions. His respectable relatives would not have felt the humiliation of seeing his name next to that of a criminal and his memory left to the comments of a scandal-loving press..."