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ILLUSTRATED MICHELIN GUIDES TO THE BATTLE-FIELDS.
BATTLE-FIELDS
OF
THE MARNE
1914
Published:
in FRANCE ; by MICHELIN & Cie ,
Clermont-Ferrand.
in ENGLAND ; by MICHELIN TYRE Co Ltd ,
81 Fulham Road, London, S.W.
in the U.S.A. ; by MICHELIN TIRE Co ,
Milltown, New Jersey.
For all Information and Advice
MOTORISTS MAY APPLY TO THE 'BUREAU DE TOURISME MICHELIN'
99, Boulevard PereirePARIS
Hotels and Motor-agents.
- Palatial and luxuriously appointed hotels.
- Well-appointed, first-class hotels.
- Comfortable hotels with modern improvements.
- Well-managed hotels with good accommodation.
- Hotels with good service for luncheon and dinner.
- Small hotels or inns where good meals are provided.
| Compressed Air | Dept for 'bouteilles d'air Michelin' for inflation of tyres. |
| Repair shop. |
| Agt de | Manufacturer's Agent. |
| Garage showing car capacity. |
| Repair Pit. |
| Electric installation for recharging accumulators. |
| 104 | Telephone number. |
| Telegraphic address. |
(Seine-et-Marne).de la Sirne,
34 r. St-Nicolas. (wc) Gar Shed Sirne 83.des Trois-Rois,
1 r. des Ursulines and 30 r. St-Rmy. (wc) Shed Inner courtyard 146.
MICHELIN STOCK (Compressed Air) Garage Central (A. Feille),
17-21 r. du Grand-Cerf.
Agt. de: Panhard , Renault , de Dion . G Petrol Dept 59.
MICHELIN STOCK Auto-Garage de Meaux (E. Vance),
55-57 pl. du March.
Agt de: Delahaye . G 84.
SENLIS (Oise).du Grand-Cerf,
47 r. de la Rpublique. Central heating (wc) Inner coach-house Grandcerf 111.des Arnes,
30 r. de Beauvais. (wc) Inner coach-house ott 17.
MICHELIN STOCK Guinot,
8 pl. de la Halle.
Stock: de Dion .
Agt de: Peugeot . 46.
MICHELIN STOCK L. Buat and A. Rmond,
2 r. de Crpy.
Agts de: Panhard , Renault , Cottin-Desgouttes , Delahaye , Rochet-Schneider , Mors . G 38.
CHANTILLY (Oise).du Grand-Cond,
av. de la Gare. Closed in 1917. Asc Central heating (wc) Gar 52.d'Angleterre,
r. de Paris and pl. de l'Hpital. (wc) Inner shed 59.Noguey's Family Hotel,
10 av. de la Gare. (wc) Inner coach-house 146.
MICHELIN STOCK Grigaut,
72 r. du Conntable. 1.14.
MICHELIN STOCK Garage Bourdeau,
1 bis r. de Gouvieux. G 1.90.
COULOMMIERS (Seine-et-Marne).du Soleil-Levant,
62 r. de Melun. Central heating, Inner coach-house courtyard 22.de l'Ours,
r. de Melun. Central heating. Inner coach-house courtyard 27.
MICHELIN STOCK Doup-Lejeune,
42 r. de Paris.
Agt de: Panhard , Delage , Darracq . Petrol Dept 92.
Gautier,
6 av. de la Fert-sous-Jouarre.
Agt de: Peugeot , Vinot-Deguingand , de Dion . Petrol Dept 1.19.
P. Fritsch,
51 av. de Strasbourg.
Agt de: Brasier , Le Zbre . Petrol Dept.
Purson, cycles,
1 r. de Melun.
Agt de: Clment-Bayard . Petrol Dept.
A. Gontier, cycles,
Le Martroy.
Doup-Boucher, cycles,
1 r. de la Fert-sous-Jouarre. Petrol Dept.
'OFFICE NATIONAL DU TOURISME'
17, Rue de Surne, PARIS (VIIIe)
The 'Office National du Tourisme' was created by an Act of April 8, 1910, and reorganised in 1917. It enjoys civil privileges and financial autonomy.
It is directed by an administrative council chosen by the Minister of Public Works.
Its mission is to seek out every means of developing travel; to urge and, if necessary, to take any measure capable of ameliorating the condition of the transport, circulation and sojourn of tourists.
It co-ordinates the efforts of touring societies and industries, encourages them in the execution of their programmes and stimulates legislative and administrative initiative with regard to the development of travel in France.
It promotes understanding between the public services, the great transport companies, the 'Syndicats d'Initiative' and the 'Syndicats Professionnels.'
It organises propaganda in foreign countries; and arranges for the creation of travel enquiry offices in France and abroad, with a view to making known the scenery and monuments of France as well as the health-giving powers of French mineral waters, spas and bathing places.
ALL ENQUIRIES WITH REGARD TO TRAVELLING SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE 'TOURING-CLUB DE FRANCE'
65, Avenue de la Grande Arme, 65
PARIS
'THE TOURING-CLUB DE FRANCE'
ADVANTAGES OF MEMBERSHIP
The 'Touring-Club de France' (founded in 1890), is at the present time the largest touring association in the world. Its principal aim is to introduce Franceone of the loveliest countries on earthto the French people themselves and to tourists of other nations.
It seeks to develop travel in all its forms: on foot, horseback, bicycle, in carriage, motor, yacht or railway, and, eventually, by aeroplane.
Every member of the association receives a badge and an identity ticket, free of charge, and also the 'Revue Mensuelle' every month.
Members have the benefit also of special prices in a certain number of affiliated hotels; and this advantage holds good in the purchasing of guide-books and Staff (Etat-major) maps, as well as those of the 'Ministre de l'Intrieur,' the T.C.F., etc. They may insert notices regarding the sale or purchase of travelling requisites, in the 'Revue' (1 fr. per line). The 'Comit de Contentieux' is ready to give them council with regard to travelling, and 3,000 delegates in all the principal towns are retained to give advice and information about the curiosities of art or of nature of the neighbourhood, as well as concerning the roads, hotels, motor-agents, garages, etc.
Members are accorded free passages across the frontier for a bicycle or motor-bicycle. For a motor-car the association gives a 'Triptyque' ensuring free passage through the 'douane,' etc.
TO TOUR FRANCE IN COMFORT JOIN THE 'TOURING-CLUB DE FRANCE'
IN MEMORY OF THE MICHELIN EMPLOYEES AND WORKMEN WHO DIED GLORIOUSLY FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
THE MARNE
BATTLE-FIELDS
(1914)
JOFFRE
Commander-in-chief of the French Army
Copyright 1919 by Michelin & Cie.
All rights of translation, adaptation, or reproduction (in part or whole) reserved in all countries.
FOREWORD
For the benefit of tourists who wish to visit the battlefields and mutilated towns of France we have tried to produce a work combining a practical guide with a history.
Such a visit should be a pilgrimage, not merely a journey across a ravaged land. Seeing is not enough, one must understand: a ruin is more moving when one knows what has caused it; a stretch of country which might seem dull and uninteresting to the unenlightened eye, becomes transformed at the thought of the battles which have raged there.
We have, therefore, prefaced the description of our journeys by a short account of the events which took place in the vicinity, and we have done our best to make this account quite clear by the use of many illustrations and maps.
