I was possessed11 with the idea that a decision was urgent. Was not this the day and the hour, even the minute, that historians would designate to all eternity12 as that in which our supreme13 chance of victory occurred?
My heart was beating madly. I tried in vain to calm myself by the usual reflections. I could so well picture the alternative being laid before the governor of Paris. Either to reserve his army in view of the[Pg 420] probable siege, or else to hurl14 it into the furnace down to the last battalion15.
It was a formidable initiative. The fate of the country in his hands! All my being was strained, almost to breaking point, towards the side of boldness. I would have given ten years of my life that this man's heart might be well tempered.
I walked feverishly16 through the streets wherever chance led me, looking for someone to talk to. I met De Valpic, but he was exhausted17 and was going to rest.
Guillaumin had been warned for orderly duty at the Town Hall. I went to see him, but did not get much out of him as he was absorbed in his duties. It was a sight to warm the heart, this string of inhabitants, coming, each one of them, to offer to have soldiers billeted on them.
On leaving there, I went to have a look at my men who were cleaning themselves up and mending their clothes—a laudable care for their personal appearance, and a way of passing time. According to the general opinion, we should be there for some time.
I continued my walk and extended its area. I came to a vague piece of ground bordered by a hedge. I distinguished18 the murmur19 of voices behind it, and caught sight of some uniforms. Someone exclaimed:
"Take care!"
I showed myself. Then they laughed.
"Halloa! That you, Dreher?"
Five or six of my comrades from the fifth battalion were seated there in a circle, Ladmiraut and Miquel among others; Fortin, too. I was delighted. It will be remembered that I had not seen him since the incident at the "Globe."
I went and sat down beside him and began to talk[Pg 421] to him in a cordial tone. Idiotic20, the fuss that had been made! Did they still continue to worry him?
"Not a bit."
The conversation seemed to be hanging fire. I asked:
"What were you talking about when I arrived?"
"Oh, nothing much—nothing at all interesting. You got any news?"
I was stupidly inspired to tell them of little Frémont's death.
"Poor boy!" sighed Laraque.
"Whose turn is it now?" Fortin remarked.
Silence fell again. I said:
"You don't seem very enthusiastic here."
"Not much reason to be."
"Oh, come!"
Fortin gave a start, but his neighbour nudged him, saying:
"That your opinion?"
There were smiles. My reputation as a scoffer23 was indeed well established. Fortin, without addressing me in particular, murmured:
"Of course," I said. "Myself for one."
He gazed at me, refusing to take me seriously; then said, in a tired voice:
"I am stating results. The war has been going on for just five weeks and where have we got to? We've been beaten everywhere and thrown back on our final redoubt. The amount that was said about defending the least particle of ground foot by foot,[Pg 422] till the last extremity25! The extremity has soon come. Let's establish the balance: Lille, Arras, Amiens, Beauvais, St. Quentin, Mézières, Rheims—by this time probably Meaux and Chalons; possibly Nancy! A quarter of France invaded. No, I tell you, there's nothing to be done. They were ready; that's all. They knew what they wanted."
I interrupted him, quivering all over. It was my turn now to copy Guillaumin.
"Then, according to you, everything is lost?"
"Oh," he said, "the men are first rate. There's nothing lost by admitting that. They will probably hold out to the end, in face of all hope, for honour's sake."
"And you'll be one of the first to do so," said Miquel.
"Just like everyone else. It's in our blood. I see our line of resistance on the Loire, then on the Garonne. The wretched government will have to move house again."
"How you run on! And Paris?"
"It's lucky they didn't bear straight down on it. They'd be entering it at this very moment."
"Perhaps they had some reason...."
"Bah!"
"All our armies on their flank."
"Our poor armies! A lot there is left of them!"
"Really? Look at our regiment26. Is it at full strength? Have its numbers been made up to what they were at the start? Yes. Well, it's the same thing everywhere. All the dep?ts have supplied men. As we fell back we recuperated27 our reserves while, as long as their communications go on extending, their front loses in density28. They are no longer so im[Pg 423]mensely superior to us in numbers as they were at the beginning, and their movements are anything but free. Maubeuge was not taken yesterday."
"But it will be to-day."
"One day gained."
"Oh, yes! That's a good joke, that idea about holding out."
"Holding out, exactly. We've got to the thirty-fifth day of war. According to the German plans, we were to be annihilated29 by that date. Are we? No. There are all kinds of things lacking."
"All kinds?" Fortin said ironically.
"Our line is not broken anywhere; we have only wheeled. You spoke of Nancy just now. They'd better come and take it from Castelnau! Do you really want to know what I think? I think they're the ones that are in the soup."
A buzz of scepticism greeted my declaration. I continued:
"To the East? Why?"
"Against the Russians."
"Where did you get hold of that idea?"
"In the papers."
"Are they to be had?"
"If you look for them."
I shook them.
"You're not curious! You know nothing, then? Not even you, Fortin? Really? Nothing of our Allies' successes?"
He raised himself.
"But look here, are these tales serious?"
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"What d'you mean? Their advance exceeds all expectations."
I summed up the triple Slav offensive in Prussia, Galicia, and Bosnia.
They seemed to doubt my statements. I abruptly31 pulled a newspaper out of my pocket, spread it out, and read out the headlines of the articles. I called their attention to the illustration, a mighty32 Cossack pointing his lance at Berlin.
They pressed round me, crushing me, their hands seizing the paper and their eyes devouring33 the contents. When their first thirst was allayed34 I continued in the most serious tone:
"There's a first motive35 for confidence. For the second?... But you've only got to look at these Sunday crowds. Talk to them and you'll soon see. We are seeing Paris at her most noble aspect. Don't you realise that we are living through the most glorious days in our history? For the first time we have avoided weakening ourselves by political convulsions in the face of danger. That will save us, simply."
Some of them nodded in approval. Fortin tried to weaken the impression I had made.
"The papers say what they choose."
I attacked him.
"And what about you—what are your statements based on?"
"I should be only too glad," he protested, "to see things take a turn for the better."
"No, you don't wish for our success," I cried. "Or at least not ardently36 enough. You are the victim of your standpoint. For months now you have been repeating in your lectures and articles that you know[Pg 425] Germany inside out; that she is powerful and irresistible37; that the future of Europe lies with her while we merely represent a past about to vanish. Ever since the beginning of the campaign you've been waiting, with bowed head, for your prophecies to be fulfilled. I can imagine you warning your companions that 'that will not last,' whenever any good news arrives, and saying, 'I told you so!' at each setback38. And if you regret it as a Frenchman, which is quite possible, it's quite obvious that as a philosophical39 witness you unconsciously rejoice. You misrepresent the reality. Your vision is warped40. You immediately look at the worst side when endless possibilities are open to you. Do you wonder that the future looks black to you in such circumstances? But the most annoying part is that you demoralise those around you. I implore42 you to make an effort. Try to be impartial43 and honest. Consider all the signs in our favour to-day."
I continued. I was speaking quickly, overcoming the obscure embarrassment44 which usually paralyses me, when it is a question of holding the attention of an audience. I let my conviction burst forth45. I poured out the arguments I had collected in an imperious flood. By expressing them I discovered in them fresh truth and amplitude46. Far from becoming involved and detracting from each other, they grouped themselves into harmonious47 chains.
I extolled48 the morale49 of the troops; that morale at which we all expressed ourselves surprised, and Fortin most of all. Surprised? Why not say exalted50? Behind us the nation gave proof of its indomitable spirit. I laid stress upon the superiority of our generals; the young blood introduced in high places,[Pg 426] the incapables placed on the retired51 list; and the prodigious52 problem represented in a retreat of those dimensions when the whole line must keep in touch, and never cease for an instant to harass4 the enemy.
I suddenly shifted my ground, and reverted53 to the international situation which I ventured to depict54 in broad and summary terms. The Triple Alliance disintegrated55. Austria beaten and occupied in decimating her Tchek troops. Italy, non-committal, had perhaps already made up her mind to intervene, but on our side to save her children in the Trentino, and in Trieste; the Balkans, waiting silently in the darkness, like a bird of prey56, for the death rattle57 of the first to be conquered, to claim a share of the carcass. Turkey keeping at a respectful distance. On our side the Russian giant only inaugurating the effort which he was capable of increasing for months and years. The English contributing their incontestable mastery of the seas, the omnipotence58 of their gold, the land forces fed by their insular59 and colonial reservoirs. Belgium and Serbia, little nations with unquenchable spirits—yonder on the other surface of the globe, the Land of the Rising Sun throwing its weight into the balance. The world, in fact, in coalition60 against the insolent61 race which aimed at hegemony without in any way justifying62 it.
At first they had listened to me with a smile as if it were an excellent joke. Little by little the incredulous curl to their lips died away. Fortin repeatedly punctuated63 my remarks with "Exactly, exactly!"
I gaily65 ventured on new developments. I lost sight of myself. I became really inspired. It intoxicated[Pg 427] me to attain66 to such unlooked-for ardour. I do not remember quite what I said. I know that my comrades, with half-opened lips and eyes fixed67 on mine, hung on my words, and that for the first time in my life I endured all these gazes bent68 on me without false shame.
Our side was that of Justice, of international fidelity69, and respect for treaties, of Morality, written or unwritten. I was not afraid of bringing up these popular commonplaces, and I clearly dissociated our cause, even from that of the Allies. We were the only nation with completely unsullied hands, and peace-loving hearts. We were the only ones who, drawn into the struggle against our will, in bearing the heaviest burden, were fighting for our very existence. I asked them to think what the French mind meant to the world, what would be missing in the progress of humanity in the future if we let ourselves be overcome. We were not only defending our immediate41 interests, but a certain smiling Reason, a certain completed and definite genius whose secret to-day we alone possessed. It was a decisive conflict. Fortin was right about that. If we were conquered again this time, we should always be. It would mean that our name would be scratched off the list of leading nations, our colonies sacrificed, three or four provinces torn from our Mother-country, who in future would fall a prey, every ten years, to the appetites of the conqueror70.
The end of France was what the aggressors wanted. To extinguish this blazing hearth71 of liberty and light, to smother72 this ringing voice continually calling the nations to the realisation of themselves, and to those in power to respect the down-trodden.
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Ah, my friends, what an hour it was to strain our faculties73, to prove ourselves worthy74 of our humbler brothers who were showing such self-sacrifice and instinctive75 heroism76! We others ought to be strengthened by our education. I dared to plead the memories of the soil which bore us. I evoked77 the rolling uplands of Champagne78 where we had lingered yesterday and where we might return again, summoned by the melancholy79 accents of the guns. How many battles had been fought and won there by men of our blood! They were the Catalonian fields, where, at the dawn of our history, the hordes80 of barbarians81 already issuing from Germany had spent themselves against the vigour82 of the Gauls, the allies of Aetius. And was it not just a few miles away, on the hills and in the valleys which to-morrow's prodigious engagement would perhaps gain for the enemy, that the astonishing episodes in the French campaign had been enacted83, a hundred years ago! Champaubert, Sesanne, Montmirail, and again Meaux and Moret. It was there that our fathers, children of sixteen, the last class eligible84 for mobilisation, had held out for weeks, flying from one valley to another, inflicting85 defeat after defeat on an enemy five times more numerous, on the European coalition! And we, after a long peace, well-taught, well-led, animated86 with the breath of civism—should we not find a way to hurl back over our frontiers the enemy whom Napoleon had trodden under his heel?
I was afraid to end up with a high-flown tirade87. I uttered my closing sentences in a softer voice, as if out of breath. I was still quivering and, with my eyes on the ground, I threw some pebbles88 from one hand to the other, backwards89 and forwards.
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There was a silence. Laraque broke it with a joke. "An aeroplane!" he announced. And it was a hawk90! Other frivolous91 remarks followed. Suddenly chilled, I asked myself whether my words had missed fire.
I had no more fear about it a moment afterwards, as we went back to billets—slight, striking indications—they all had more life in their movements, something firmer in their tones.
Fortin had murmured: "I think Dreher's right."
We were just about to disperse92 near our school, when some cavalry93 turned out of a side street. We saluted94 the officer at their head, a colonel. He urged his mount towards us:
"Hi, there, you foot-sloggers, read that!"
He held out a paper, which Fortin handed to me without a word.
Why me? I hesitated about unfolding it. The others shouted: "Yes, yes, give it to Dreher, that's it!"
I felt as if I were in a dream. At the first glance I understood. A proclamation signed "Joffre."
I said: "Call the others!"
The signal had already been given. A torrent95 of men flowed in from all the different companies. There was a bench just by. I got up on to it. From there I dominated the crowd which was gathering96 round me in increasing numbers. Soon half the regiment was there, and some passers-by joined on. There were shouts of: "Listen! Listen!" Then a dead silence.
I began to read, subconsciously97 approving the way in which I raised my voice and scanned each syllable98. It was the famous order of the day, which has so often been reproduced since then.
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"At the moment in which a battle is beginning upon which the fate of the nation hangs.... Troops which can no longer advance must be killed where they stand rather than give ground."
Not a syllable escaped me. Not a soul asked for it to be read again. A ripple99 ran over this dumb throng100. I jumped to the ground, and got lost in the crush. What intuition urged me to make a dash for our billets? Hardly had I crossed the threshold—how quickly things happened!—before a whistle was blown.
Humel, who was corporal of the day, ran by like a flash. "Come along! On with your pack!"
"Are we off again?"
"That's it!"
Guillaumin appeared.
"Off we go!"
De Valpic was the next to turn up: "You read that splendidly!"
I soon noticed a sort of irresolution101 among the men, due to surprise more than anything else. Start again! When they thought they were going to have several days' rest! And they had felt so sure that there would be no more fighting in the open for them!
Some of them had instinctively102 gathered round me: Judsi, Bouillon, Corporal Bouguet, Icard, and Gaudéreaux. They were puzzled, too, but only asked to have things explained. They asked me about the paper that I had read out. Several of them had not been there.
"We'll have it again for you!"
This time I choked with emotion at the last lines. I added:
"Look here! The Bosches think we're not worth[Pg 431] taking into account. They think we're safely shut up in the camp. We're going to fall upon them in the rear!"
Their faces suddenly cleared.
It was like a fuse followed by an explosion of gaiety. Some of the men were already buckling104 on their packs, and others pulling on their boots and doing them up. Bouguet began to sing at the top of his voice:
We don't care a blow!
Tra-la-la-la.
We don't care a blow!
Lamalou spoilt his effect.
"Wot do you mean, 'don't care a blow'?"
They went on getting ready to a chorus of jests. They might have been starting off for a holiday.
Directly I was fully105 equipped, I went out and was one of the first to get into the avenue. I could not master the transport which swept me off my feet, at the thought of going into action. Of taking the offensive again! The captain must have second sight—and the time was not past. Our chance was intact, indeed, increased. Heavens! All that I had hoped for was coming to pass. Let me confess my vanity, my childish simplicity106. I was actually under the delusion107 that if our luck was turning, it was my reward, for having drawn myself out of the pit to help others.
And was I so very much mistaken? Was I not responsible for a small share in this immortal108 decision?[Pg 432] Would our leaders have taken such a risk—it was a bold move!—if those waves of faith and enthusiasm, which a few of us had raised, had not spread from our watchful109 quarters right away to them?
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