Érize-the-small

Érize-the-Small is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

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“Erize-the-Small, August 2nd. it is worst cursed godforsaken holes where I ever landed. On the sacred way of Verdun. A sparse small village on both sides of the main roads. The majority of the houses… were conscientiously destroyed by the last bombardments… Calm absolute, calm of death. Great concentration of ambulance men. The dark countryside largely unrolls its brown harvests - extended under a fatty rain, drizzle, drizzle, or floods - but always under the rain.

August 3rd, rain, rain, rain…

Erize could be first of all a small town without attractions, but now, with half of the houses which are only shells full with rubble and muddy manure, and the ground trampled everywhere in a kind of brouet by the uninterrupted procession of the troops and the trucks, it is incredibly the symbol of the intense latent trouble of the war”.

These some lines describing the aspect of the village of Érize-the-Small lasting First World War are drawn from the book of American, volunteer ambulance man to be used on the face and in station for the village. This work is the Initiation of a Man: 1917 .

This soldier, it is John Dos Passos (1896-1970), one of the major American writers of the 20th century.

See too

Common of the Meuse

External bonds

Érize-the-Small on the site of the national geographical Institute
Érize-the-Small on the site of INSEE
Érize-the-Small on the site of Quid
Localization of Érize-the-Small on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Érize-the-Small on Mapquest

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