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ROSE (Mme. Marie) Pseud.
Marie du Coin: The True Experiences of a French Girl Who Lived During the Great War in a Town in the War Area.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 47pp. Newcastle-on-Tyne: R. Ward & Sons, Printers.
1929
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The narrator was a the daughter of the strict matriarch of a well established family in Hazebrouck who ran a popular cafe/estaminet, where she grew up. She records the coming of troops, first German, then French, then English. A CCS sprang up nearby, RAMC doctors were billeted at the cafe, the town was occupied until the debacle of 1918 when the town was shelled & all left. Returning in April the family found the cafe surrounded by barbed wire & barricades; the town remained occupied & she became engaged to & then married an RAMC sergeant & moved to England after the armistice, presumably to Newcastle as this work was printed there. Orig. printed wraps., little dusty, staples rusted, o/w VG, inscribed: "To Monsieur and Madame Logan with the compliments of the authoress Madame Yvonne Perkins 19 Sept. 1931." An unusual account of the occupation by a local civilian. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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