. . For reasons unknown all the household staff were gathered in the pantry, which is located on the ground floor of the mansion to the left of the entrance hall (room 3 on diagram 1). The precise locations of the bodies are indicated on diagram 4, in which: No. 1 is the body of the butler, Etienne Delarue, age 48 years No. 2 is the body of the housekeeper, Laura Bernard, age 54 years No. 3 is the body of the master's manservant, Marcel Prout, age 28 years No. 4 is the body of the butler's son, Luc Delarue, age 11 years No. 5 is the body of the maid, Arlette Foche, age 19 years No. 6 is the body of the housekeeper's granddaughter, Anne-Marie Bernard, age 6 years No. 7 is the position of the security guard Jean Lesage, age 42 years, who died in the St-Lazare hospital on the morning of 16 March without regaining consciousness No. 8 is the body of the security guard Patrick Trois-Bras, age 29 years No. 9 is the body of the porter, Jean Carpentier, age 40 years. The bodies shown as Nos. 1-6 are in sitting positions around the large kitchen table.
