# Alsace in rust and gold Author: O'Shaughnessy, Edith, 1870-1939 Genre: Category: History - European Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75745 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Alsace+in+rust+and+gold+O%27Shaughnessy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Strangely caught up out of the rut and routine of Paris war-work, not even choosing my direction (the Fates did that), contributing, however, the eternal readiness of my soul, which the poet says is all, I was conveyed, as on a magic carpet, to the blue valleys and the rust and gold and jasper hills of Alsace, where the color is laid on thick, thick. There I was one, during many historic days, of the delightful group of blue-clad, scarred, decorated officers forming the French Military Mission, which since the autumn of 1914 had administered the little reconquered triangle of Alsace and planted in it the seed for the re-Gallicizing of Alsace-Lorraine. It was a bit of French history in the... ## Chapters - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alsace-in-rust-and-gold-75745/chapters/14/index.md)