Up the Seine, to the Battlefields (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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OF this river - the river that crosses all France whose shores are starred with great cities, whose waters have mirrored Gallic boats, Roman galleys, Norman fleets, English galleons, and, in our day, have harbored the world's ships that have saved the world - oi this river of France, famed since before Caesar looked out upon it through the silken cur tains of his litter - how many soldiers, how many travelers know its true beauties?

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