Word: moissac
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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During the second rainfall 400 soldiers including many burly, black Senegalese, donned gas masks and entered the muddy, stinking valley of the Tarn between Montauban and Moissac. There they buried in quicklime the carcasses of 3,000 horses and cattle. After four days, drenched and nauseated, they had to be relieved...
...Moissac on the Tarn, Guillaume Durand, sabot-maker, saw his wife and three relatives drown while he stood on a wall with two children on his shoulders. In the nave of the village church were piled 100 corpses. On the highroad below medieval Albia man and woman, complete strangers clung to a treetop for 33 hours, during which time the woman gave birth to a child. Seriously damaged was the Bordeaux wine country-hundreds of vineyards in Sauternes, Barsacs, whence sweet white wines, were uprooted...
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