Jean Jules Verdenal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physician
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Place of Birth: Pau, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jean Jules Verdenal
- Jean Jules Verdenal (11 May 1890 – 2 May 1915) was a French medical officer who served, and was killed, during the First World War.
- Verdenal and his life remain obscure; the little we do know comes mainly from interviews with family members and several surviving letters.Verdenal was born in Pau, France, the son of Paul Verdenal, a medical doctor.
- He had a talent for foreign languages.
- He was athletically inclined.
- Verdenal as a student was interested in literature and poetry and possessed copies of Stéphane Mallarmé's Poésies and of Jules Laforgue's Poésies and Moralités Légendaires.
- It was perhaps Verdenal's literary inclinations that led him to become friends with American poet T.S.
- Eliot, whom he met in 1910 at the Sorbonne.
- After they parted ways, Verdenal and Eliot corresponded through letters.
- Verdenal was killed on 2 May 1915 while treating a wounded man on the battlefield.
- This was just a week into the Gallipoli Campaign and a few days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday.
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