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The Fusilier and the R.F.A. man had seen "St, George leading the British at Vitry-le-François, when the Allies turned." Thus the time of the apparition and the place of the apparition were firmly fixed in the two soldiers' minds. Yet the very next paragraph in the article begins: "'Where was this ? I asked. But neither of them could tell" This is an odd circumstance.
A little way beyond Bar-le-Duc we came on another phase of the war-vision, for our route lay exactly in the track of the August invasion, and between Bar-le-Duc and Vitry-le-Francois the high-road is lined with ruined towns.
Apparently the gallant son of Gaul found it easier to tame lions than to repair motors. We left Vitry-le-François at 6 o'clock next morning, and started "the hunt for generals." We were not yet really on the "White Road" to Verdun, and there was still much to be seen that delighted the eyes. In one yellow cornfield there appeared to be enormous poppies.
The Germans advanced until their left was at Vitry-le-Francois and their right rested at Sezanne, making a column 15 miles long, headed west toward Paris. The French butted the line six miles east of Sezanne, in the forests of La Fere and Champenoise. It was here that the greater part of the fight occurred. It was fighting at long distance with artillery and from trench to trench with the bayonet.
Miles of desolation may be seen in a couple of hours' drive around Vitry-le-Francois, Favresse, Blesmes, Ecrinnes, Thieblemont, Maurupt, Vauclerc, with acre upon acre of ruined buildings, a chimney standing here and there, heaps of twisted iron that once were farm machines, withered trees and graves, everywhere soldiers' graves.
Joffre, accordingly, decided to continue the retreat and brought all his forces that were west of the Meuse, in good order and no longer heavily pressed back behind the Marne and on a line from Paris, through Meaux, Sézanne, La Fère Champenoise, Vitry-le-François, Bar-le-Duc, and thence north to Verdun.
The preparations were completed March 27. Everything horses, carriages, escort, pavilion was ready. That morning Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg, the Austrian Ambassador, and the Countess Metternich, the Minister's wife, arrived at the castle of Compiegne from Vitry-le-Francois, where they had seen the Empress, of whom they could bring news to Napoleon.
The officer enquired whether he really understood the job, and received the reply, "Yes, mon Lieutenant, I think I do, but I am rather a novice, as before the war I was a lion-tamer!" Apparently the gallant son of Gaul found it easier to tame lions than to repair motors. Hunting For Generals We left Vitry-le-Francois at six o'clock next morning, and started "the hunt for Generals."
He looked disdainfully at the cock and cat. "They could have left them behind and no one would have pinched them, whereas I know I'll never see 'Sarah' again she was far too useful." Entering Vitry-le-François we had a splendid example of the typical "motto" of the French trooper, "Il ne faut pas s'en faire."
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