It seems that he hastened the ceremony after our last interview; for that was only twelve days ago, and to-day I learned that the wedding was to take place at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, to be followed by a banquet and ball here.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
To-day, as I went towards Lens over Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and the valley beyond, I met a number of those men coming back after their victorious fighting.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
I found it wise to shift three times, but on scaling the high ridge of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette again I lingered to look at the great picture of war outspread below-that long seven-mile stretch of miners' villages crowding densely up to Lens-the great outbursts of red and black smoke between the slag-heaps and chimneys away to the battlefield of Loos, across which sunlight and shadows chased in long bars-and our shell-fire heavy around Lens church and far beyond where enemy's troops and transport were hurrying in retreat.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
