Thursday, January 8, 2015

A Soldier's Room

From The Washington Post:
Dragoons officer Rochereau died at age 22 inside an English field ambulance after a battle in Belgium on April 26, 1918. According to the Guardian, the officer’s parents decided to keep his room exactly as he left it — even after selling the house under the poignant, if legally unenforceable condition the room should not be changed for 500 years.

“When you walk into it it’s as if time has stood still,” Laurent Laroche, mayor of Bélâbre, told the Guardian. The story of Rochereau’s room gained notice in October and may help the mayor, who is now seeking a benefactor to ensure that the room will remain as it is for centuries.

Laroche told the Guardian: “Our little village is being spoken about the world over, which makes me proud to be mayor. And maybe it will help us find long-lost Rochereau relatives and save the room. It would be a great pity for it to be lost to future generations.” (Read more.)
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