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I walked over the district that had been destroyed by these accidental shots, and it stretched from the northeastern outskirts of Rheims in a straight line to the cathedral. Shells that fell short of the cathedral for a quarter of a mile destroyed entirely three city blocks. The heart of this district is the Place Godinot.
In every direction at a distance of a mile from the Place Godinot I passed houses wrecked by shells south at the Paris gate, north at the railroad station. There is no part of Rheims that these shells the Germans claim were aimed at French batteries did not hit.
Haussmann; he would go up to some unhappy sergent-de-ville, who might, however unwittingly, excite his ire, and tell him a bit of his mind in English, with sarcastic allusions to his cocket-hat and his toasting-fork, and polite inquiries after the health of ce cher Monsieur Lambert, or the whereabouts of cet excellent Monsieur Godinot.
The British officers present were all of opinion that their chances of success, under the circumstances, were slight indeed. The battle commenced at nine in the morning by an attack by the French general Godinot upon the bridge of Albuera.
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