The word 'remembrance' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of remembering something or someone, or to a memory you keep of them. For example: "She kept a remembrance of her grandmother in her locket."
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Some outside observers picked up on this peculiar form of pride – a kind of anti-nationalist nationalism – and gently mocked it: Timothy Garton Ash, for instance, spoke of Deutsche Industrie-Normen – a German industrial standard – in "coming to terms with the past"; others crowned the Germans "world champions in remembrance".
A few of the dead have memorials here; many more have their names recorded in the books of remembrance that are stored in the vaults.
And in the past week a seven-day remembrance of the girls has included vigils, demonstrations, letter-writing, and a Global Schoolgirl March.
Both the Queen's speech at the state dinner in Dublin Castle and her silent tribute at the national garden of remembrance to those killed fighting the British for Irish independence at the start of her visit on Tuesday have been well received.
Related: 'Not out of it, but above it': how the Queen will engineer a royal retreat to keep out of a hung parliament Another senior royal, such as Prince Charles, is expected to represent the Queen at the service of remembrance at Westminster Abbey.
In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator depicts the "powerful joy" that a tea-soaked madeleine awakes in him when he is "dispirited after a dreary day, with the prospect of a depressing morrow".
The Queen's absence from London during the VE Day anniversary weekend means that she will miss the main commemorative event, a service of remembrance at Westminster Abbey, which is due to be attended by the leaders of the main political parties.
Critics – often on the left – have argued that both "coming to terms with the Nazi past" and "overcoming the legacies of the GDR" might have been failures after all: in the case of the former, the critics claim that Germans have essentially appropriated the victims of the Holocaust in order to feel good about their own efforts in remembrance.
The remembrance of industry figures who died in the past year, rarely a part of an award show where innovation is encouraged, was injected with genuine emotion as Sara Bareilles sang Charlie Chaplin's classic Smile live on stage while names and pictures of the dead were projected on screens above.
And the debate about the current Hitler exhibition in Berlin might be the next major controversy that keeps the German culture of remembrance as rich, complex and alive as it has been in the last decades.
