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Godet resumed his efforts to recruit Mireille as his secretary. She learned to type and worked for him, but she quickly developed a distaste for her job. Marcel, who was fourteen when the war ended, lived with his parents in Paris and resumed his schooling. Mathilde did not return to their service, though she remained a good friend of the family and visited often.
Nelly resumed her long vacations in the forest during the summer months, either staying with family and friends or renting a hotel room of her own.
She took part in none of the victory celebrations. In , Bastille Day celebrations also commemorated the anniversary of the turning point that had brought Allied victory the previous summer. Recoiling from the sight and sound of the flares left over from the war that local officials used as fireworks, which reminded her of the Gotha bomber raids and Big Bertha shelling of Paris, Roussel took refuge in her beloved forest.
Meanwhile, Henri mingled with the boisterous revelers in Paris, which also repulsed her. As long as the victors are thrown flowers and smiles, War will not die. No doubt, the end of the war itself emotionally revived her, and either her physical symptoms improved or she spent less time dwelling on them as she resumed public life.
