blainville-sur-l'eau

Updated: July 8, 2025

This name has, even now, scarcely grown familiar to the eye and ear, but it proves to have been the real name of Émile Nolly, whose romances of modern life in the Extreme East had been widely read just before the war. Détanger was just thirty-four when the war broke out, and he was one of its early victims, dying at Blainville-sur-l'Eau on September 5.

Edmund Gosse - Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France