Western Front: Aisne & Oise. French folding postcard map of the Aisne and Oise, number 3 from the series Les Cartes du Front. The map includes the Champagne front from Compiègne in the west to Chalons-sur-Marne in the east including Soissons, Chemin des Dammes, Laon, Reims, and Château Thierry.
Les Cartes du FrontNo. 3 — Aisne & OiseMaps of the FrontAisne & OiseEn vente chez tous les librairesLes Cartes du Fronttirées en 5 couleursFormat Dble. Carte-PostaleNo 1. Les Flandres- 2. Artois, Picardie- 3. Aisne & Oise- 4. Argonne — Côte de Meuse- 5. Lorraine- 6. Vosges et AlsaceA. Hatier. Editeur.8.Rue d'Assas, Paris.Outer front:Correspondence of the ArmiesMilitary Franchise
"On the 19th [of September, 1914], while my army was getting ready to resume its attack north with the idea of capturing the massif of Moronvilliers, the enemy forestalled us. . . . The 52nd Reserve Division was obliged to withdraw from Bethény, which artillery fire had made untenable. The enemy continued to bombard Rheims, and the cathedral was in flames."
Excerpts from the memoirs of General Ferdinand Foch, for September 19, 1914, when he had been ordered by French Commander Joffre to support the French Fifth Army by attacking the German forces northwest of Rheims. The bombardment of Rheims and its beautiful cathedral would continue.
The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott by Ferdinand Foch, page 105, copyright © 1931 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., publication date: 1931
1914-09-19, 1914, September, Reims, Rheims
