[Hardy-l] Hardy quote in The Economist

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Thank you Kathie -

  -- and if you read right to the end of this moving obituary you'll see 
the most Hardyan of Hardyan sentiments:
"
On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the 
poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial. The government 
badly wanted this last foot-soldier to be memorialised; but he preferred to 
be uncelebrated and ordinary, even in some sense forgotten, and thus the 
more symbolic of all the rest."

Cheers,
Rosemarie