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Updated: June 17, 2025
The eve of the battle of Wry, the Emperor inspected all the surroundings of this little town; and his observing glasses rested on an immense extent of marshy ground in the midst of which is the village of Bagneux, and at a short distance the village of Anglure, past which the Aube flows.
When the waiter came he received the order to send the landlord up, and in less than five minutes the latter came and bowed respectfully to the guests who had drunk so much champagne. "Monsieur Aube," began the vicomte, "who is the little bird that sings so beautifully downstairs?" "A young, modest, and very respectable girl, gentlemen." The young men burst into loud laughter.
Her gratitude, thus openly shown to the memory of the great revolutionist, has been of course to the revolutionary party a potent recommendation, but not the only one. In Arcis the leader of the advanced Left is a rich miller named Laurent Goussard, who possesses two or three mills on the river Aube.
Then the Admiral, taking a list of the serviceable docks with him, went back on board the Ithuriel and ran out to the Fleet. He handed over the work of taking care of the lame ducks to Commodore Courtney of the Britain; then from the damaged British ships he made up the crews of the French cruisers, the Jules Ferry, Leon Gambetta, Victor Hugo, Aube and Marseillaise.
But the attempt to break through the center Foch held, waxed fiercer as the Germans realized the strength opposing them on their right. And on Tuesday, the 8th, Foch was unable to hold save at certain points and had to move his headquarters eleven miles south, to Plancy. He had now reached the Aube, beyond which Joffre had decreed that he must not retire.
He had put forth his full strength, exposed his own person to the hottest fire, so as to encourage his men, and yet failed to prevent the union of the allied armies, or to hold the line of the River Aube.
If a stand could be taken and an offensive launched further north than the Aube River, it should be done; but in no event would the withdrawal go beyond the Seine, the Aube and the region north of Bar-le-Duc.
"Louison," he softly said, "I have got a good business to propose to you." "What is it, Father Aube?" The landlord, somewhat embarrassed, stammeringly answered: "If you desire you can make one hundred francs in fifteen minutes." "So much? You are joking?" "Not at all; you sing two or three songs, and the money is earned." "Where shall I sing?" "Here in my house, on the first story."
Aubé had dreamed of vast rooms and huge kitchens, but the obstinacy of the people already living in the same building could not be conquered, and as yet he had not obtained the space he desired. They resisted every offer and every threat he made. He could have borne it better had these refractory persons been tenants whose vicinity added éclat to his establishment. But it was not so.
"What poor girl?" asked Fanfar. "Pray explain yourself, Monsieur Aubé." Montferrand had heard that this Fanfar was only a rope-dancer; but his air and manner, his dress, too, proclaimed him to hold a very different position, and he was greatly attracted by his appearance.
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