Michel

The husband of Nicole was an older French soldier serving in the 2nd Army, during World War I. Along with his military gear at the Battle of Verdun, he carried a small box of personal possessions, including a photograph of his wife, Nicole.

In September 1916, he was in a unit led by Major Gaston, in the trenches north of Verdun. After a Belgian courier arrived with orders to attack Fort Douaumont, the soldier, recognizing his own likely mortality in battle, opened his box, and showed the young courier the picture of his wife, explaining that she lived in Marseilles, and her address was in the box, and that the box needed to be sent to her. The courier took the box, though claiming that he couldn't accept it. Gaston's whistle blew, and the soldier charged up out of the trenches, and into no man's land. The man's fate was unknown.

Two days later, the courier recalled a mental image of the older soldier handing him his possessions, and remembered the men at the front dying in battle, and used that as moral justification for destroying new orders to attack the fort, which would have resulted in their slaughter from increased German arms.

Behind the scenes
The role of Nicole's husband in the episode "Verdun, September 1916" of the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is not credited.

Appearances

 * Demons of Deception
 * Verdun, September 1916 comic