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Updated: June 13, 2025
The decorations were ugly enough to be modern. The ceiling was as black with gas-fumes and tobacco smoke as any other ceiling in any other estaminet in the Quartier Latin. The waiters looked as waiters always look before midday sleepy, discontented, and unwashed.
He felt suddenly very helpless, alarmed and idle; and he followed the middle-aged man to the estaminet round the corner where he met some other good companions. They assured him that he would not be allowed to starve, work or no work. They had drinks all round to the discomfiture of all employers of labour and to the destruction of society. He sat biting his lower lip.
I discovered at last that "Coffee" was a thoughtful translation of Café, a word which might have been supposed to puzzle an English soldier, though indeed very few French words puzzle him for long. I was never inside "English Soldiers' Coffee." But I have no doubt it would have been just as popular if it had called itself a café or even an estaminet. The case of "Mary's Tea" was different.
The estaminet still lived, but farther down the road the old house which had sheltered a field ambulance was a pile of rubbish. On we rode by La Couture to Estaires, where we dined, and so to St Jans Cappel.... Do you know what the Line means?
They would make this statement to her at every village where she met them, in every estaminet, at any puncture on the road over which they helped her simply, and because it was the only thing in their minds. "Do you hev' to come out here?" he enquired. "Oh, no. We come because we like to."
Dug-out A hole more or less deep in the side of a trench where soldiers are supposed to rest. Dump A place where supplies are left for distribution. Entrenching tool A sort of small shovel for quick digging. Carried as part of equipment. Estaminet A French saloon or cafe. Fag A cigarette. Fatigue Any kind of work except manning the trenches.
Except in the large hotels in Rouen I have only found one which boasts of any sort of room besides the estaminet; it was the Hotel des Trois Marie at Argentan. When this defect has been remedied, I can imagine that English people will tour in Normandy more than they do even at the present time.
And there may be one or two things to be picked up before the others." So two of them went off on a tour of inspection. Noticing bee-hives outside the house of the village priest, they went in and bought two large jars of liquid honey. An estaminet yielded a couple of bottles of Médoc, and a pâtisserie, most unexpectedly, some bread.
The day we approached Oneux, Lizzie was sick, and I was delegated to his job. I went into the town with the three other quartermaster sergeants, got them into an estaminet, bought about a dollar's worth of drinks, sneaked out the back door, and preempted the schoolhouse for C company. I also took the house next door, which was big and clean, for the officers.
It was arranged that the despatch riders next on the list should take their motor-cycles down and be summoned over the wire if they were needed. An order had come round that unimportant messages were to be kept until the morning. We dined in the large kitchen of the Maison Commune Estaminet, at a long table decorated with mistletoe and holly.
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