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Updated: May 5, 2025

Victory was in the hearts of our hosts, who included M. Paul Doumer, formerly President of the Chamber of Deputies and Governor of French Indo-China and now a senator, and General Febrier, of the French Medical Service, who was to have had charge of the sanitation of Paris in case of a siege.

Frederick Palmer - My Year of the War: Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and: the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the: First Time in its Complete Form

M. Doumer was acting as Chef de Cabinet to General Gallieni, the commandant of Paris, and he and General Febrier and two other officers of Gallieni's staff, who would have been up to their eyes in work if there had been a siege, wanted to see something of that army whose valour had given them a holiday.

Frederick Palmer - My Year of the War: Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and: the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the: First Time in its Complete Form