TY - JOUR T1 - The Absence JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 982 LP - 982 VL - 55 IS - 521 AU - Jacques Chauviré Y1 - 2005/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/55/521/982.abstract N2 - An austere, exacting and haunting vision of rural France died with Jacques Chauviré in the spring of this year. Born at Genay, in the valley of the Saône, near Lyons, in 1915, his father was killed in the trenches of Champagne the same year. He was to grow up in the company of anxious women, the family house dominated by a photograph of his father in military uniform. In 1942, in the middle of the next war, he opened his practice in Neuville-sur-Saône: he wanted to pursue a hospital career, but the war was on and he had a family to feed. Nevertheless, the tour of isolated farms and intimate knowledge of the elderly and impoverished in the hinterlands of Lyon gave him the great satisfaction of ‘being close to people and enjoying … ER -