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Updated: June 4, 2025
The streets were filled with permissionnaires from all parts of the Western front, and there were many of those despised of all the rest, the embusqués, as they are called, who hold the comfortable billets in safe places well back of the lines.
Into this great station, as into all the others, train after train hourly gives up its load of permissionnaires men home on their six days' leave ; men for the éclopé stations; men from shattered regiments, to be held at Le Bourget until the time comes to be sent to fill other gaps made by the German guns; men who merely arrive by one train to take another out, but who must frequently remain for several hours in the dépôt.
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