mobilisables

Updated: May 21, 2025

The crowd that passed our window was chiefly composed of conscripts, the mobilisables of the first day, who were on the way to the station accompanied by their families and friends; but among them were little clusters of bewildered tourists, labouring along with bags and bundles, and watching their luggage pushed before them on hand-carts puzzled inarticulate waifs caught in the cross-tides racing to a maelstrom.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort