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Fontainebleau

Katherine Mansfield died on 9 January 1923 at Fontainebleau, near Paris, from a lung hemorrhage brought on by the exertion of climbing the stairs in the old priory where she was staying. She’s buried in nearby Avon cemetery. For many years, her grave has been tended by M. Bernard Bosque, who leads the local branch of an association called Les Amis de KM.  I already knew of Bernard through Redmer Yska’s Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to station, recently published by Otago University Press. Redmer calls him...