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Translator: J. C. Drouillard

A Blue Devil of France

BY CAPTAIN G. P. CAPART LATE OF GENERAL P?TAIN'S STAFF

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY J. C. DROUILLARD

NEW YORK W. J. WATT & COMPANY PUBLISHERS

PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.

TO M. PAUL BIZET M. DESIR? MARBAIS MY FRIENDS

The reader will regret, perhaps, the absence of continuity in the following chapters; that will rapidly disappear, however, when he sees the characteristic figures he should better know and love for a long time to come. A scruple has always guided me: to write the truth. I have been strict in writing nothing but what I have seen or heard.

In giving these souvenirs to the American public, I have had but one object: to mold in relief the warlike virtues of the admirable soldiers of France with whom I have fought for more than three years.

Mothers, wives, sweethearts and children of the heroes fallen in defense of their country, will find in these pages a precious consolation: they will see that with just reason they can be proud of their cherished dead.

I ask indulgence, much indulgence of the public. I have written these lines simply and faithfully during a long and painful convalescence; many times I have felt that my physical forces would abandon me before I could arrive at the end of my task. I shall be fully recompensed for these efforts if I know I have brought to my readers the emotion and feeling, which I still experience, of those epic hours.

CAP. G. P. CAPART.

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