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Updated: June 24, 2025
In the dusk of the forest that look followed us down the mountain; and as we skirted the edge of the ravine between the armies, we felt that on the far side of that dividing line were the men who had made the war, and on the near side the men who had been made by it. June 19th, 1915. On the way from Doullens to Montreuil-sur-Mer, on a shining summer afternoon.
"Yesterday," writes the Montreuil-sur-Mer municipality, "more than two hundred of our citizens set out to beg in the country," and, when they get nothing, they steal. "Bands of brigands spread through the country and pillage all dwellings anywise remote. ... Grain, flour, bread, cattle, poultry, stuffs, etc., all come in play.
Their Majesties left Compiegne on the 19th, and arrived at Montreuil-sur-Mer at nine o'clock in the evening. I accompanied the Emperor on this journey. I have read in O'Meara's Memorial that M. Marchand was at that time in the service of Napoleon. This is incorrect; for M. Marchand did not enter the Emperor's private service until 1814, at Fontainebleau.
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