French papers largely sympathized with Jeanne Langevin, churning out maudlin articles about selfish devotion to family and long-silent suffering.

Many articles naturally sentimental mind sees it attributed to the trigger objects, then again a lot of rhetoric and beautiful romantic, sad, and yet too decadent, always makes me annoyed.

Chivers gathered all of the dispatches related to a single remote beleaguered American military outpost and stitched them together into a heartbreaking narrative.