The Ordeal by Fire By a Sergeant in the French Army

PART I

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_BOOK I_

_August 1, 1914_

CHAPTER PAGE

I. JEANNINE LANDRY 3

II. A YOUNG MAN OF 1914 11

III. BELLS 19

IV. A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, THE SAME EVENING 25

V. A MEDITATION AT THE WINDOW 31

_BOOK II_

_August 2nd-3rd_

VI. I GO BACK BY TRAIN 40

VII. PARIS, AT FIRST SIGHT 45

VIII. MY FATHER 51

IX. MY FRIEND 60

X. EVENING, ON THE BOULEVARDS 66

_BOOK III_

_August 4th-9th_

XI. THE FIRST STAGE 72

XII. NEW COMRADES AND OLD 79

XIII. KNOCKS AND CONTACTS 85

XIV. THE EXISTING STATE OF MIND 93

XV. AT THE GLOBE CAFÉ 103

XVI. CAVILLINGS 117

XVII. SUSPICIONS OF EMOTION 125

XVIII. A RETURN OF EGOISM 131