Our Joffre, a version of the Lord's Prayer, the Notre Père or Our Father, for French commander Joseph Joffre to bring victory in 1915.

Notre Joffre

Qui êtes au feu,

Que votre nom soit glorifié, que votre victoire arrive,

Que votre volonté soit faite sur la terre comme dans le ciel;

Donnez-leur aujourd'hui votre 'pain' quotidien;

Redonnez-nous l'offensive, comme vous l'avez donnée à ceux qui les ont enfoncés;

Ne nous laissez pas succomber à la teutonisation, mais délivrez-nous les Boches! Ainsi soit-il.



75

(Un combattant anonyme, pr. c.c.

Malatesta 2182.

D'après la guerre par l'image.

Visé Paris Croissant



Our Joffre

Who art the fire,

So that your name will be glorified, so that your victory will come,

Thy will be done on earth as in heaven;

Give them today your daily 'bread';

Give us back the offensive, as you have given it to those who have driven them back;

Do not let us succumb to Teutonisation, but deliver us from the Boches! So be it.



75 [the French 75mm field gun]

(An anonymous fighter, private C.C.

Malatesta 2182.

After The War in Images.

Referred Paris Croissant



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Friday, September 4, 1914

"(1) The time has come to profit by the adventurous position of the German First Army and concentrate against that Army all the efforts of the Allied Armies of the extreme left.

All dispositions will be made during the 5th of September for beginning the attack on the 6th.

(2) The following will be the positions to be attained by the evening of the 5th: . . .

[positions for the French Sixth, Fifth and Ninth Armies, the First and Second Cavalry Corps, and the British Army follow]

(3) These various Armies will take the offensive on the morning of the 6th September."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from French Commander Joffre's General Order of September 4, 1914. Since their defeat in the Battle of the Frontiers, the French and their British allies had been in general retreat from the center of their line at Verdun west to the left wing. As Joffre transferred forces west to strengthen his left, he asked his generals when they would be ready to counter-attack. Newly commanding the French Fifth Army, General Franchet d'Esperey would be ready on September 6.

Source

Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914, Vol. I, August to October by J. E. Edmonds, page 495, copyright © Second Edition 1925, publisher: MacMillan and Co., Limited, publication date: 1925

Tags

Britain, France, Russia, The Allied Retreat, Triple Entente, Cripple Entente, September, 1914, 1914-09-04, Joffre