Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France

CHAPTER VI

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ÉTAT-DE-SIÈGE IN NANCY

Discouraging start in Nancy—General de la Massellière—Visits 48 to the Prefect and Mayor—Their appointment—Madame Mirman—Their example—The Lorraine stock—Nancy by night—The sound of the guns—A united people—The French renaissance—Nancy newspapers—Nancy hospitals—Nursing sisters