croisille

Updated: May 9, 2025

If we may believe tradition, Louis XI. occupied the west wing, and from his chamber he could see, at a glance the course of the Loire, the opposite bank of the river, the pretty valley which the Croisille waters, and part of the slopes of Saint-Cyr.

Honoré de Balzac - Maitre Cornelius

Croisille and Cherisy were targets of German guns, and I saw them ravaging among the ruins, and dodged them. But our men, who lived close to these places, stayed there too long to dodge them always. They were inhabitants, not visitors.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

And as he moved along the sewerlike trench he came on a wooden cross that marked the grave of a man he once had known, now buried some days in the parapet, old Ritz Handelscheiner. ``Lucky devil, said Fritz. The Master of No Man's Land There grew a swede in No Man's Land by Croisille near the Somme, and it had grown there for a long while free from man.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of War