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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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A French paper describes a touching reunion in Faubourg St. Jacques on Thursday last, where a soldier returning from Moscow, disguised by beard and tattered clothes, surprised and embraced his mother in her fruit shop after five years.
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Two soldiers with their knapsacks on their backs apparently returned from a long journey, entered the shop of a fruiterer in that quarter, and asked for something to drink. The mistress herself served them. Her son had joined the army five years ago, but she had since received no accounts of him; this induced her to ask the strangers some questions. Her son, she said, was in such a corps of the army, and must have been at Moscow: without doubt he is dead, she added weeping—
"No, no." replied one of the soldiers, "he is in your arms."
In fact, he soon recognized her son, whose long beard and tattered dress had at first concealed him from the eyes of his mother.
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Faubourg St. Jacques
Event Date
Thursday Last
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mother and son reunited after five years; son survived moscow campaign.
Event Details
Two soldiers entered a fruiterer's shop; the shop mistress, whose son had been in the army and gone to Moscow five years prior without news, questioned them and wept believing him dead. One soldier revealed himself as her son, initially unrecognizable due to his long beard and tattered dress.