Nevers

Yeah, she does.

So, she is interred at the chapel of St. Bernadette in Nevers, France.

St. John Vianney, who lived from 1786 to 1859, known as the Curé of Ars, his body is largely undecayed and is enshrined at the Ars Shrine.

St. Catherine Labore, and these are the more famous ones because they're the ones that are hard to explain, and there was no known extreme natural causes that could have caused them to be mummified.

When, I think, Eiji, the Japanese man, the man, they have no names in Hiroshima Mon Amour, woman, man.

Or Hiroshima and Nevers.

And when she sees him lying in bed after the night of lovemaking, and she's getting her coffee, and she sees his hand twitch as he's waking up, it just cuts to the hand twitching of a dying soldier.

There's no sound effect.

And I remember the editor, the sound guys, they always want to put stuff on that.

And that's also very North American.

We want to... or heavy-handed here, and no, René does it subtly, like he, it's kind of an appel d'air, like a vacuum, there's a vacuum, and I mean, that's my theory on technically how it kind of works, and he does it once, he does it twice, and then by the end of the movie in Hiroshima Mon Amour, when she's walking in Hiroshima at dawn, because the story takes place in 36 hours, you know, 24 hours, yeah, a day and a half, It cuts between the neon signs of Hiroshima and the houses in Nevers.

And by this point, as a viewer, and they're like tracking dolly shots, your mind also jumps between cities and between eras.

So let's look back at the next wave coming through.

A charter back in January of 1101 tells us that one Count William of Nevers, a French Burgundian nobleman, also called for his own force to join Pope Pascal's call to reinforce the Holy Land.

But by the time he set off, Stephen and the rest had already gone.

traveled from Nevers in France to Brindisi, across the Adriatic, landing in Avalona, then overland through Thessaloniki, and then on to Constantinople, all with very little violence and unrest, arriving on June 14, 1101.

Albert of Aachen gives us the figure of, as I said before, 15,000 cavalry and infantry, including the curious detail that there were innumerable women in tow, whatever that may mean.

Now, that 15,000 was most certainly one of those good old medieval exaggerations, but we know that it was definitely in the thousands, a lot of them, and it would most definitely have impacted the events of Mercivan.

Would it have tipped the scales? Maybe, maybe not, but it would have had a big effect.

But as we know, they wouldn't make it in time.