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Updated: May 29, 2025
The Germans know it, and hate him; and as soon as the first soldiers reached Crevic so obscure and imperceptible a spot that even German omniscience might have missed it the officer in command asked for General Lyautey's house, went straight to it, had all the papers, portraits, furniture and family relics piled in a bonfire in the court, and then burnt down the house.
At Crevic, the Germans began their sinister work by burning a chateau which they knew belonged to General Lyautey. The troops, commanded by an officer, shouted out for Madame and Mademoiselle Lyautey "that they might cut their heads off." The houses destroyed by fire were not always uninhabited.
His "specimens" have changed, that is all: he has passed from butterflies to men, from the actual to the visionary Psyche. On the way to Menil we stopped at the village of Crevic. The Germans were there in August, but the place is untouched except for one house.
As we sat in the neglected park with the plaintive ruin before us we heard from the gardener this typical tale of German thoroughness and German chivalry. It is corroborated by the fact that not another house in Crevic was destroyed. May 16th. East of it, a ribbon of river winds among poplars, and that ribbon is the boundary between Empire and Republic.
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