Word: veilhac
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Furious at the news, the division commander, General Réveilhac, ordered his artillery to shell the 2 ist's trenches. He was frustrated by the artillery commander, who refused to obey without a written order. Thereupon General Réveilhac ordered the 21st to the rear, Corporals Maupas, Girard, Lefoulon and Lechat shot by a firing squad, buried under shameful black crosses...
...dead husband's name. Last year a court especially constituted to review such cases ruled that the 21st had been pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, declared that the executed corporals had been valiant men, awarded their widows damages of one franc each. Meantime General Réveilhac had retired to his fine country estate, been made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, died...
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