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acknowledgments As I complete this book, I am deeply grateful for the sustained support of my benefactors, mentors, colleagues, friends, and family. For the generous fellowships and grants that supported my research and writing in Paris, I am grateful to the Mellon Foundation, the Krupp Foundation, the Hellman Foundation , and the Whiting Foundation, as well as the Humanities Center, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. I am also thankful for the support, during the final stages of this project, of a sabbatical leave and an indexing grant from the O≈ce of the Dean of the Faculty at Williams College. I want to thank Emily Apter, Alice Jardine, Marjorie Garber, and Tom Conley for their many years of mentorship, inspiration, and guidance, and for their confidence in this project from its earliest stages. I am indebted to Melanie Hawthorne, David Powell, and Margaret Waller for their detailed reading of the manuscript and their invaluable suggestions, which have helped to make this a much better book. I sincerely thank Allan Bérubé and Jean Tulard for their inspiration, correspondence, and encouragement. For their wise counsel, sustained confidence, and generous advice on this project, I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues in the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College: Kashia Pieprzak, Glyn Norton, Jennifer French, Gene BellVillada , Leyla Rouhi, Soledad Fox, and Richard Stamelman. For their expertise , encouragement, and friendship during the revisions of the manuscript, I am grateful to several other colleagues at Williams, including Chris Waters, Carol Ockman, Gretchen Long, Denise Buell, Alexandra Garbarini, Regina Kunzel, Katie Kent, Christine Ménard, Steve Fix, Bill Lenhart, and Bill Wagner. Thanks also go to a number of colleagues beyond my home campus who o√ered helpful advice and feedback, including Jarrod Hayes, Daniel MeyerDinkgr äfe, George Moskos, Philippe Dubois, and Vinay Swamy. I want also to thank Elisabeth Ladenson, General Editor of the Romanic Review, Dorothy Figueira, Editor of The Comparatist, and Chris Humphrey and the editors of Cambridge Scholars Publishing for their permission to reprint portions of this text that were published in earlier versions as: ‘‘Military Bedfellows and Napoleonic Mentors: Intimacy and Friendship in the Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne,’’ Romanic Review 101.2 (May 2010); ‘‘From Balzac to x Acknowledgments Iraq: Soldiers, Veterans, and Military Adaptation,’’ The Comparatist 30 (May 2006): 68–80; ‘‘Corporal A√airs: French Military Fiction from Zola to Proust,’’ The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature, and the Arts, ed. Daniel MeyerDinkgr äfe (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005) 103–22. I am enormously grateful to Phyllis Deutsch, Editor in Chief at the University Press of New England, for her confidence in this project, and for her encouragement, patience, and expertise. I must also thank Sarah Sherman and the other Series Editors of ‘‘Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies’’ at upne and the University of New Hampshire Press, for their invitation to be part of this inspiring series. Many thanks also go to Rosemary Williams for her careful copyediting; to Martin White for his skillful indexing; and to Lys Weiss, Katy Grabill, and Lori Miller at the University Press of New England for their expertise, hard work, and support. This project is the culmination of an intellectual passion that began with Theodore Marier, Helen Stack, Theodore Levingston Allen, Nina Seidenman, Bernard Planchon, and Anne Slack, to whom I am profoundly grateful. For their unfailing friendship and long-term support during the writing of this book and beyond, I want to thank Kristin Kimball, Julie Townsend, Mike Hill, Peter Wardle, Keja Valens, Didier Veloso, Nina Nowak, and Samantha Gra√. As I hope the prologue to this book makes clear, I am deeply grateful for the love and support of my family—my parents Nancy and Joseph Martin, my brother Kevin Martin, and my sister Karen Raymond—whose hard work and sacrifice inspired this project, and to whom it is dedicated. And for his many years of intellectual engagement, thoughtful advice, and patient support, I am most grateful to—and for—Maxime Blanchard. To all of these benefactors, mentors, colleagues, friends, and family: Merci beaucoup. ...

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