Last post for a poilu's poilu: Lazaire Ponticelli...

www.voanews.com/english/2008-03-18-voa2.cfm

Died at age 110, and then he was buried the day before yesterday with Roman Catholic funeral rites and with an honor guard of 21st Century French Foreign Legionaires.

Lazare Ponticelli had fought with th eLegion starting in 1914, then was switched to an Italian Alpine Regiment fighting the Austrians in 1915.

Don't you know this grand old man lived one he*l*l of a long, fascinating life?

If nothing else, he outlived around 8.4 million other French veterans of WWI!