Last Sunday, I wrote about the Rue Meynadier in Cannes; surprised that I couldn’t find much on the Internet about who the street was named after, I sent an email to David Lisnard, a public official of the city of Cannes who was kind enough to furnish me with the following information: The street was renamed Rue Meynadier on March 22, 1945 to honor an old Cannes family. Théodore Meynadier died fighting for France during World War I in 1915; his son Roger, born in 1914, played a key role in the French Résistance. After the liberation of Paris, he became part of General Koenig’s staff headquarters. Sadly, his health had suffered so much during the war years that he died on October 13, 1944, just 30 years of age. Our generation takes so much for granted...