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From the 20th of July to the 23d of August Joan followed the king whithersoever he went, to Chateau-Thierry, to Senlis, to Blois, to Provins, and to Compigne, as devoted as ever, but without having her former power. She was still active, but not from inspiration and to obey her voices, simply to promote the royal policy.
On the 21st the Germans had abandoned Château-Thierry and the Soissons road as far as the Ourcq, but north of that river they held the road for a week, and Buzancy was not captured till the 29th. By the 23rd Berthelot was making progress on the other side of the salient, and the German centre had to relinquish the forest of Fère and Oulchy on the 25th.
That of Château-Thierry watched the evacuation of the Government Offices, the banks, the prefecture and the post office without the slightest alarm. The retreat was well advanced ere they dreamed of it. When finally the people realised that the enemy was at their very gates, they moved out swiftly without any commotion." The German onslaught at the Marne in 1914 had been terrible but brief.
Foch waited until the enemy had spent his strength in the attacks around Rheims and on the Marne, then struck fiercely between Soissons and Château-Thierry. The spearhead of the main drive was composed of the First and Second American Divisions, immediately to the south of Soissons, who were operating under Mangin with the First French Moroccan Division between them.
For the love of heaven, go you've still got a chance though there's hard fighting going on in the streets of Chateau Thierry! For God's sake, don't hesitate. Adieu." She was gone! And I stood there dazed! "Hard fighting at Chateau-Thierry! That's only seven miles from here," I counted. Go? Go where? How?
This ensign had not quitted the prince's side since his return, and could inform Henri very accurately on the subject. On his arrival at Chateau-Thierry, the prince had at first entered upon a course of reckless dissipation.
Two years later while George M. Cohan was composing "Over There," Horace was leading the sophomore class by several lengths and digging out theses on "The Syllogism as an Obsolete Scholastic Form," and during the battle of Chateau-Thierry he was sitting at his desk deciding whether or not to wait until his seventeenth birthday before beginning his series of essays on "The Pragmatic Bias of the New Realists."
"Has your highness decided on that?" "Yes; Chateau-Thierry suits me in all respects; it is a good distance from Paris, about twenty-eight leagues, and I can watch from thence MM. de Guise, who are half the year at Soissons. So bring the beautiful unknown to Chateau-Thierry." "But, monsieur, perhaps she will not be brought."
Behind us an army engineer blew up the post and telegraph office, the military buildings, the station, the store house, and finally the bridge. Our eyes were beginning to smart terribly, which announced the presence of mustard gas, and told us we had left none too soon. "I will never forget the sight and the commotion of the road leading from Château-Thierry to Montmirail.
"And yet you went to Chateau-Thierry for that purpose," said some one. "Certainly I did, and on horseback." "Poor fellow!" "I had eight different horses, and I was almost bumped to death." "You are an excellent fellow! And you rested yourself when you arrived there?" "Rested! Oh! of course I did, for I had an immense deal of work to do." "How so?"
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