September 5, 1849.
The summer's scorching heat heralded the final "offensive," with the blazing sun unleashing its heat mercilessly across the land, making the sunlit soil gradually hot and parched.
Despite the drowsiness-inducing temperature, there was a group of people beside the Tours Railway Station in the Indre-et-Loire Province of central-western France. They were dressed in appropriate black suits and tall top hats, standing under the blazing sun at the station, gazing north along the railway line into the distance.
Even though their white linings were soaked with sweat, lips dry, and perspiration on their foreheads incessantly trickled from the top of their heads down their cheeks, forcing them to repeatedly wipe with pure white handkerchiefs, which also got soaked from the constant wiping, they refused to leave.
Until the distant rumbling of the steam train approached, and soon a train emerged from the distant horizon, gradually heading toward Tours Railway Station.
