platinerie

Updated: May 25, 2025

Almost at the same minute, with German precision, the Wurtemburgers seized the bridge of La Platinerie, and hidden by the Chevalier Wood, the Saxon battalions, spread out into company columns, occupied the whole of the road from La Moncelle to Villers-Cernay. Thus, as we have seen, the awakening of the French Army was horrible. At Bazeilles a fog was added to the smoke.

Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness