French folding postcard map of Verdun and the Meuse River, number 9 from the series Les Cartes du Front. Montfaucon is in the upper left and St. Mihiel at the bottom.

Les Cartes du Front

Verdun et Côtes de Meuse

Echelle 1:32,000

Routes

Chemin de fer

Canaux



Maps of the Front

Verdun and the Hills of the Meuse

Scale: 1:32,000

Roads

Railways

Canals



1. - Les Flandres

2. - Artois, Picardie

3. - Aisne, Champagne

4. - Argonne et Meuse

5. - Lorraine

6. - Vosges et Alsace

7. - Route des Dame et Plateau de Craonne

8. - Région de Perthes

9. - Verdun

10. - Somme et Santerre

11. - Plateau d'Artois

12. - Belgique - Flandres



A. Hatier. Editeur.8.Rue d'Assas, Paris.



Outer front:

Correspondence of the Armies

Military Franchise

Other views: Larger, Larger, Back

Friday, September 22, 1916

"— They have started their shootings again. Out of four soldiers in a mutinous regiment who were shot at Verdun, one had voluntarily enlisted, another was the father of three children, while another had won the Croix de Guerre. And those were not the real ringleaders."

Quotation Context

Entry from mid- to late-September, 1916 from the diary of Michel Corday, a French senior civil servant, critical of the military, the politician, and the average citizen who pressed only for peace only through victory. The Battle of Verdun had started seven months before Corday wrote, and the majority of the French army served on the nightmarish front, constantly under bombardment, and, until mid-summer, subject to German offensives. The French held, but at great cost. The mutinous spirit would burst forth in the spring of 1917 after the Nivelle Offensive.

Source

The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 199, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934

Tags

1916-09-22, 1916, September, execution, Verdun, Battle of Verdun