Record Number: 29817
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
�A French poet (there are as many in France as this side), Albert Satteau, who always added to his name the dignity �des Gens de Lettres", used to receive me kindly at �Le Home� near our rest camp, and we read together his clockwork rhymes from the local paper.�
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1917 and 1917
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Ambleteuse, near Boulogne
county: Pas-de-Calais
other location: probably private house near rest camp
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1 Nov 1896
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Army Officer and Poet
Religion:Christian (Anglican)
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:29817
Source:Edmund Blunden
Editor:n/a
Title:Undertones of War
Place of Publication:Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.)
Date of Publication:1982 (1928, 1937)
Vol:n/a
Page:188
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 188, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29817, accessed: 24 February 2026
Additional Comments:
No external evidence has been found of published works by Satteau. Internal evidence suggests the encounters took place in mid- to late spring.
