croute-au-pot

Updated: May 28, 2025

Here, in the larger room below, is the kneeling statue which the Princess Marie d'Orleans made of her. Here, to the right, under the sloping roof, with its worm-eaten beams, she slept and prayed and worked. "See, here is the bread-board between two timbers where she cut the bread for the croute-au-pot. From this small window she looked at night and saw the sanctuary light burning in the church.

Henry Van Dyke - The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France

At the far end of the room was a great general drinking croute-au-pot with the simple appetite of a French poilu who would have been a splendid mark for anyone careless of his own life and upholding the law of frightfulness as a divine sanction for assassination.

Philip Gibbs - The Soul of the War