Anthelme Mangin (19 March 1891 - 10 September 1942), real name Octave Félicien Monjoin, was an amnesiac French veteran of the First World War who was the subject of a long judicial process involving dozens of families who claimed him as their missing relative. In 1938 he was determined to be the son of Pierre Monjoin and Joséphine Virly. In 1934 Anthelme was taken on a visit to Saint-Maur, Indre, the home of Pierre Monjoin, and permitted to walk around the village.The Living Unknown Soldier, Blâmont.info (page devoted to Anthelme Mangin, containing numerous press clippings from the period.) Starting at the Saint-Maur train station, Mangin walked unaccompanied to the house of Monjoin , though he did not acknowledge the old man. Adam Nicolson, "A living ghost from the trenches whose plight confused a nation riven by grief", The Telegraph, 16 January 2005 He noted the changed appearance of the village church, whose steeple had been struck by lightning during his absence. The authorities determined that he was Monjoin's son, but an appeal lodged by the Lemay family prolonged the case for some time. The asylum tribunal ruled on the man's identity in 1938, and remanded him to the custody of his father and brother. However, both had died by this time  . He therefore spent the rest of his life in the Sainte-Anne Psychiatric Hospital in Paris, where he died on 19 September 1942, apparently of malnutrition. « At least 300 families claimed the Unknown Living Soldier », Interview with Jean-Yves Le Naour by Jean-Dominique Merchet in Libération, 11 November 2002 He was buried in a common grave. In 1948 his remains were transferred to the cemetery of Saint-Maur-en-Indre and buried under the name Octave Monjoin. In popular culture The story of Anthelme Mangin/Octave Monjoin inspired at least two works of fiction , namely Jean Giraudoux's Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) and Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur sans bagage (1937).
Anthelme Mangin (19 March 1891 – 10 September 1942), real name Octave Félicien Monjoin, was an amnesiac French veteran of the First World War who was the subject of a long judicial process involving dozens of families who claimed him as their missing relative. In 1938 he was determined to be the son of Pierre Monjoin and Joséphine Virly. In 1934 Anthelme was taken on a visit to Saint-Maur, Indre, the home of Pierre Monjoin, and permitted to walk around the village.The Living Unknown Soldier, Blâmont.info (page devoted to Anthelme Mangin, containing numerous press clippings from the period.) Starting at the railway station, Mangin walked unaccompanied to the Monjoin family home , though he did not acknowledge the old man. He noted the changed appearance of the village church, whose steeple had been struck by lightning during his absence. The authorities determined that he was Monjoin's son, but an appeal lodged by the Lemay family prolonged the case for some time. The asylum tribunal ruled on the man's identity in 1938, and remanded him to the custody of his father and brother. However, by this time both had died . He therefore spent the rest of his life in the Sainte-Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris, where he died on 19 September 1942, apparently of malnutrition. He was buried in a common grave. In 1948 his remains were transferred to the cemetery of Saint-Maur-en-Indre and buried under the name Octave Monjoin. In popular culture The story of Anthelme Mangin/Octave Monjoin inspired at least two works of fiction : Jean Giraudoux's Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) and Jean Anouilh's Le Voyageur sans bagage (1937).
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Adam Nicolson, "A living ghost from the trenches whose plight confused a nation riven by grief", The Telegraph, 16 January 2005
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« At least 300 families claimed the Unknown Living Soldier », Interview with Jean-Yves Le Naour by Jean-Dominique Merchet in Libération, 11 November 2002
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