The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-27
TELLS OF FLIGHT
BEFORE GERMANS
Baroness Huard of France
Addresses Large
Audience
PUBLIC GUESTS
OF WOMAN'S CLUB
Beautiful Home Near Chateau Thierry
Ruthlessly Looted and Defiled-Nar-
row Escape of Mrs. Huard and Ser
wants son High Roads of France.

Graphic, fascinating and vivid with
human interest was the tale of the hor-
rors of the invasion of France by the
Germans as related by La Baronne
Huard Frances Willard Huard, whose
husband was the first official painter
for the French government, having
much of the eamoufage work to do) of
Villiers, France, in her lecture, Ny
Home in the Field of Honour, given in
the Auditorium last evening under the
auspices of the Brattleboro Woman 5
club.
Every seat in the house was taken,
the first two floors having been re-
served for members of the club and spe
eially invited guests who secured their
seats Monday and Tuesday, and during
the day yesterday many others came to
the fox office to secure the privilege of
seats, the public being guests of the
club. While tears filed the eyes of many
at times, applause burst forth at in
tervals and the baroness drew out rip
pies of laughter from everyone as she
relieved the tension by a fash of hum
or, comic human touch that revealed
the qualities which had helped her to
endure those never-to-be forgotten ter
rors and perils of her fight.
Previous to the lecture several cho;
ruses under the direction of Earl A.
Braman, were sung by the audience
,lrs Katherine Utley, Miss Marion
Greene, Mrs. Hermon L. Eddy, Mrs
William H. Bond. Mrs. Arthur /. May
nard and Miss Marion d. Hutehins
leading, with Izctta NJ. Stewart at the
piano. Miss Greene and Miss Hutehins
also sang rs q duet, Glory Halleujah
and the speaker was introduced by Mrs
Halbert L. Waterman, president of thc
club, in an appreciative reference Il
Baroness Huard.
In her opening remarks Barones.
i HuaFd said she was an American by
birth and French woman by edu
cation and marriage. She was living IN
her beautiful home near Chateau-Thier
iry when war broke out in August, 1914
She reviewed briefly the days just pre-
! vious to fhe order 10 mobilize and theI
related the story of suddenly finding
herself absolutely alone save for a few
young servants. in the army zone o
France; the awakening to the horrors O
war caused by the sudden appearance
of thousands of pitiful refugees, her un
Willingness to believe in the frightful
, ness of kultur, followed by her hair
breadth escape and astounding adven
: lures on the high roads of France
When the little party reached Melu
q the tide of battle turned. Then fol
. lowed the triumphant return across tn
e still smoking battlefelds, the despai
n at finding her exquisite chateau ruth
: lessly looted and defiled, her ever
$ treasure stolen or hopelessly defaced
l. the cleaning up, the forced installatio
of military hospital-each succeed
! ing move more unexpected than its pre6
ecessor, and each one noted by Mao
anne Huard, not only with the pen bu
o with the kodak. For in the darkne.
as she fed, she mistook camera fl
her jewel ease,
&c 1t was with regret that the barone'
- announced her inability to show slide
+ from which some of her pictures WEI
y taken, for the reason that there ha
i been a misunderstanding.
nj For the first time in public she state
10 day from the time the hospital was e
tablished in Paris after the signing
peace, and there had been no bloodsh,
since Nov. H. Madame Huard told
some of the reconstruction work of Il
:, hospital, and stated that the need f
il would be over and that it would
closed the last week in April