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...blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain, 84, brought up in the Catholic faith, has never been renowned for his devotion. Once he said that he would rather be buried in the battlefield of Verdun than in the hallowed ground of a churchyard...
...east, from the Vosges to the Rhone Valley, fresher French divisions yielded ground dearly. Surrounded by the German horde that swept through Verdun from the west and the Maginot Line from the east, 500,000 fortress troops stood in isolated squares and fought until the signing at Compiegne was announced to them...
...Paris fell, so did Le Havre. So did Montmedy, northern anchor of the fabulous Maginot Line, and Verdun, long thought impregnable, was encircled from the west, cracked. Meanwhile additional German forces thrust past Reims to Chalons, headed for Dijon, Chaumont, Belfort, Mulhouse, to take the whole Maginot Line from the rear...
...Final disaster seemed near when the Nazis took Verdun, drove on through Champagne?and France...
...Sedan and Verdun...