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"I doubt if the King ever forgave those fetes at Vaux, which were designed to dazzle Mademoiselle la Valliere, whom this man had the presumption to love.
Germans begin violent bombardment of Dead Man's Hill, March 1. Germans capture village of Douaumont, March 2; 1,000 prisoners. Fresnes captured by Germans, March 5. Germans capture Forges, March 5; drive against French left wing. Germans take Regneville, west of Meuse, March 6. Germans capture heights of Cumieres, etc., March 7. Village of Vaux taken and retaken by Germans, March 8-10.
It was not without a gentle degree of violence, which the King would scarce have endured from another, that De Vaux, in his character of sick-nurse, compelled his royal master to replace himself in the couch, and covered his sinewy arm, neck, and shoulders with the care which a mother bestows upon an impatient child.
Her car was waiting, engine running; she spoke to the Kadiak chauffeur, got in, and Vaux followed. "You know," he said, pulling the mink robe over her and himself, "you're behaving very badly to your superior officer." "I'm so excited, so interested! I hope I'm not lacking in deference to my honoured Chief of Division. Am I, Mr. Vaux?" "You certainly hustle me around some!
De Vaux, right glad, if the truth may be guessed, that the scene ended without Richard's descending to the unkingly act of himself slaying an unresisting prisoner, made haste to remove Sir Kenneth by a private issue to a separate tent, where he was disarmed, and put in fetters for security.
"But thus it is, my lord," replied the Scot. Will it please you, who are of the King's secret council, to cause these camels to be discharged of their burdens, and some order taken as to the reception of the learned physician?" "Wonderful!" said De Vaux, as speaking to himself.
Are you who express such an indifference on the subject, aware, that as soon as it is known that M. Fouquet is going to receive me at Vaux next Sunday week, people will be striving their very utmost to get invited to the fete? I repeat, Saint-Aignan, you shall be one of the invited guests." "Very well, sire; unless I shall, in the meantime, have undertaken a longer and a less agreeable journey."
If the attack on Belleau Woods proved their courage, the capture of Vaux vindicated their skill, for losses were negligible.
He was doing that which France asked of him, that which God told him to do. Josephine would be proud of him. He would never be ashamed to meet her eyes. As he went, alone or in company with others, he whistled and sand a bit. He thought of "L'Alouette" a good deal. But not too much. He thought also of the forts of Douaumont and Vaux. "Dame!" he cried to himself.
On May 5, 1916, this line was on the whole intact. Only in one place had the Germans gained a small advance; they had captured Vaux village, which consisted of a single street, but the French occupied the slopes near by that commanded the place. There was no change on the French line on the left bank, where the character of the ground was favorable for defense.
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