The fruits of military leave: a French woman wearing the kepi of 1914-15 hold an infant twins, a boy and a girl, one in each arm.

Les suites d'une Permission



The consequences of leave



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Wednesday, June 6, 1917

"The causes of mutinies appear to be:

1. Too protracted periods in the front line without relief, after the great offensive—for want (in many cases) of reserves to replace them.

2. Leave periods delayed for over four months, contrary to all regulations.

3. The moral effect of the set-back of the 16th April, and the troops' determination not to make further attacks.

4. Disappointment at the rejection of the peace offers of the 12th December, 1916.

5. The veto on passports for Stockholm.

6. The general war-weariness."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from the entry for June 6, 1917 from the diary of Michel Corday, French senior civil servant, writing about the causes of the French army mutinies that followed the failure of the French offensive begun on April 16, the Second Battle of the Aisne. Germany had made peace overtures in December, 1916, and Socialists would hold a conference in Stockholm in neutral Sweden.

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, pp. 257–258, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

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1917-06-06, 1917, June, mutiny, French mutiny, les suites d'une permission