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A Journey Through France in War Time By: Joseph G. (Joseph Green) Butler (1840-1927) |
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A Journey Through France in War Time By JOSEPH G. BUTLER, JR. Member of The American Industrial Commission to France. THE PENTON PRESS CLEVELAND 1917 [Illustration: inscription by author.] Copyright, 1917, by
Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, O.
One hundred copies of this edition
have been printed of which
this is number
39 Second Edition TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCE
WHO AMID INEXPRESSIBLE SORROWS
AND INFINITE CARES EXTENDED A
GRACIOUS WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION AND
TO THE AUTHOR THIS BOOK IS
GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
Origin of the Purpose of the Trip. CHAPTER II
Crossing the Atlantic. CHAPTER III
Bordeaux and Paris. CHAPTER IV
Meeting England's Premier. CHAPTER V
The Birthplace of Lafayette. CHAPTER VI
A Great Munitions Plant. CHAPTER VII
Art and Architecture of Aries. CHAPTER VIII
Along the Mediterranean. CHAPTER IX
Towns in Southern France. CHAPTER X
The Creusot Gun Works. CHAPTER XI
Approaching the Front. CHAPTER XII
Within Sound of the Guns. CHAPTER XIII
The Story of Gerbeviller. CHAPTER XIV
On the Main Front. CHAPTER XV
Reims and the Trenches. CHAPTER XVI
Back to Paris. CHAPTER XVII
On the Way Home England. CHAPTER XVIII
On the Broad Atlantic. CHAPTER XIX
The French Steel Industry in War Time. CHAPTER XX
Where War Has Raged. CHAPTER XXI
General Joffre. CHAPTER XXII
The Work of Reconstruction. CHAPTER XXIII
French Business Organizations. CHAPTER XXIV
The Carrel Method of Treating Wounds. CHAPTER XXV
A City in an Army's Path. CHAPTER XXVI
Some impressions of France and the French.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Typical French Soldier in Uniform Photograph of Commissioners, Taken on Train Leaving Paris for Limoges The Author's Passport Autograph Signatures of the Commission Grand Theatre, Bordeaux. Closed Until the War Ends Miniature French Flag Carried by the Author Through France. The Waving
of This Flag by an American Aroused Much Enthusiasm Lloyd George, Who Says "England is Fighting a Battle for Civilization" Miss Winifred Holt, "Keeper of the Light House of France" Ancient Bridge at Limoges Built by the Romans Two Thousand Years Ago
and Still in Use Tapestry Workers at Aubusson Lafayette's Deathbed, With Commission's Flag and Flowers Monastery of St. Michael, at le Puy Silk Tapestry Menu Used at Dinner to the Commission at St. Etienne Col. Rimailho With 155 mm. Gun (upper) and Famous 75 mm. Gun (lower)
Perfected by Him Women Employed in Munitions Factories Arlesiennes Types of Southern France Old Roman Arena at Aries Still Used for Bull Fights and Other
Amusements Shore of the Mediterranean Near Marseilles. In the distance Chateau
D'If, Made Famous by Dumas Types From the French Provinces Monastery of Chartreuse New 520 mm. Gun, Carrying Projectile Seven Feet in Length and Weighing
3,100 lbs., Seen at Creusot Works German Prisoners Passing Through the Village of St. Etienne The Lion of Belfort Battlefield of La Chipotte, Showing Monument and Markers on Graves Ruins of Gerbeviller Sister Julie Cathedral at Nancy German Trenches Captured by the French The Reims Cathedral Before its Destruction Ruins at Reims. Upper and Lower Plates The Cathedral. Middle Plate The
Archbishop's Palace Key of Archbishop's Palace at Reims and Bone From Twelfth Century Tombs
Opened by German Shells Trenches Visited by the Commission King Albert's Address to the Belgians Photograph of King Albert of Belgium, with the Royal Autograph French Marines Operating 75 mm. Gun on Shipboard Nancy Place Stanislas Ruins of Village St. Die The Prefecture at Reims After Bombardment Portrait in Tapestry General Joffre Ruins at Nancy Trenches Occupied by French Soldiers Proclamation Posted in Reims Just Before the French Fell Back
to the Marne Arrival of Wounded Soldiers at Chalons, on the Marne Proclamation by the Mayor of Reims, Issued on the day the Germans
Entered that City, September 4, 1914 First Order From the Invaders Second German Proclamation Citizens Warned of Danger Citizens Warned that Hostages May be Hanged Postal card Painted by Artist Soldier in French Trenches
FOREWORD
Of all that has been written, or is to be written, by Americans
concerning the tragedy overwhelming the Old World, much must naturally
be descriptive of conditions in France, since that country is, among
those affected by military occupation, most accessible and most closely
in sympathy with American ideals and American history... Continue reading book >>
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