French General Robert Nivelle, from a pharmaceutical advertising card

Général Nivelle



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Indonesian:

Sakit pileg jang soedah lama dan jang baharoe, sakit tatoeq, sakit radang derri boeloeh-hoeloeh di-mengobati sampoerna dan sama sekal oleh: Antjoeran Pautauberge jang bekin koewat paroe-paroe dan menegahken sakit tombal (tuberculose).

L. Pautauberge

10, Rue de Constantinople

Parijs dan segalla roemah obat.



Dutch:

Oude en pas ontstane verkoudheid, hoest, ontsteking der luchtpijptakken worden afdoende genezen door de: Oplossing Pautauberge die de longen sterk maakt en de Tuberculose voorkomt.

L. Pautauberge

10, Rue de Constantinople

Parijs en in alle apotheken



Old and newly arisen colds, cough, and inflammation of the bronchial tubes are effectively cured by:

Pautauberge Solution

which strengthens the lungs and prevents Tuberculosis.

L. Pautauberge

10, Rue de Constantinople

Paris and in all pharmacies

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Sunday, December 17, 1916

"By the end of the year, Joffre had retired with the dignity of Marshal of France, and command of the army on the Western Front was entrusted to the dashing cavalryman, Robert Nivelle. The war machine at Chantilly was dismantled. Nivelle, whose powers were strictly limited to metropolitan France, set up headquarters at Beauvais (moving later to Compiègne), and the overall responsibility for the French military effort was thereafter exercised by the Ministry of War in the Rue St. Dominique, Paris."

Quotation Context

Chantilly had been the headquarters of French Commander in Chief Joseph Joffre, who was replaced by General Robert Nivelle as part of the resolution of the crisis in the French Government in December, 1916. By limiting Nivelle's command to Metropolitan France, the Government most importantly excluded the Allied forces on the Salonica Front under the command of Maurice Sarrail, who had chafed under Joffre's restrictions.

Source

The Gardeners of Salonika by Alan Palmer, page 109, copyright © 1965 by A. W. Palmer, publisher: Simon and Schuster, publication date: 1965

Tags

1916-12-17, 1916, December, Joseph Joffre, Joffre, Robert Nivelle, Nivelle