Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-15

embraces also the forests of Argonne, 2 mountainous region to the northeast containing many almost inaccessible passes and defles famous in history, which have given it the name of the French Thermopylae.
 During the Franco -Prusslan war In zaJ0 It was the scene of many import ant military movements. And it was over the Argonne heights while ago that Che third German army crossed and descended the valley of the Aisne
 Compiegne, where the Germans have suffered severe losses, lies at the junc- ton of the Disc and the Aisne and dates back to the early Frankish kings Much of historic Interest centers in and around tine town.
 A fsvoTite reeldence of the kings of France. IL contains a splendid palace built Oris.Inzily Ey Louis VT rebuilt Isy Louis MY, and improved by Louis AV, Lor!s XVI and Napoleon I, rezpec- lively.
 There several parliaments were hel6, and before it's walls Joan of Arc was taken prisoner, the very spot still being shown. It was there that the first Napoleon met Maria Louisa, Napoleon III gave shooting parties to which the fashionable world of the day gathered. a striking contrast to the scenes of blood recently enacted within it's borders
 One Of the most beautiful cities of France, Nancy is 17e miles east of Paris, on the river Meurthe, and con taius many fine buildings. chief of which are the cathedral, with its beau uful paintings and the fresco azcribed 10 Leonardo da Vinci, an old Gothic castle. which was nearly destroyed by Ire when the German troops were EifhoraTn in 1871: a museum and a number of hospi+als- Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was slain beneath It's walls. January ,, l&77.
 Lun eville, twenty-five miles Eoutheszt OE Nancy, also besieged by the Ger mans with the kaiser personally 9i- Sscting operations. lies at the con Guence of the Negouse and the Aeurthe .lvers and is notable as one Cf the largest cavalry statiors in France, it's palace, once the home of the dukes of cavalry barracks. The peace of Lune~ vile was signed February $. 1901 when the Rhine became the border line of France.
 It carries on 8 large trade in corn, wine and brandy. There, September g. according to 6 confirmed report, Lad her to the reichstag. met his death during an attack against the French
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 With tts history dating back to the third and fourth cs- Uries-when Tetri- GUS was overcome by Aurelian, Anno DoCiai %7E. the AleIaanni by Joviaus in Sss ard the united arnies O. Aetius and Ghsodcric. with the Runs under AttiIS fought great battle in 45a-the walled citg os C5lSions, on tue Marue, has been tae scene 0S many stirring events Count t1erceft Of TerHandoiss captured it in t.e seventh century and Rudolph of Burgundy and Robert of Verman6oise in the tenth century.
 Ie WAS there that the 5ishop of YeFdun was deposed by St. Bernard. There Aenry " brought the parliament from Par1s h 1889, and some two or three years later the people burned the bulls o1 eersory XIV and Clement VIII @xcommunicating the king. Tha Prus- Eans occupied the town in 1874, and the h1ssians captured it in 1915.
 Chaloas with the environs became g. Etrongly fortified camp under Napoleon HI In 1856 and therefore offered a favorable position for the allies to ir- trench themselves and give battle 60 Saeir foes in the great combat now rag gagged on both sides, with this town as Sae center Of activities.
 Tnere, at the beginning of the Franco <russlan war, when the French were nrst defeated. Canrohert commanded the 9th Army Corps. afterward transferred % Metz when the remnant If the armies of nacMahon and DeFaiily were orga11- s1ed and reinforced. The evacuation and 1zdaI destruction of the camp took
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