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country, the peasant class, around here are very interesting. The grains and grasses are-all cut by hand and they use oxen and cows to pull the wagons etc. Mother I don't know but it seems more like a dreamland than anything else. The valleyis very historical for it was thru here that Hannibal led his army, later it heard the trampling of th3 Homan armv as Ceasar wentnorth to meet the BarbariansTeutons. Again it saw the Crusaders as they went on theirway to the Holy Land and itwas across the mountains that [ can see that Napoleon told his army, “Across the Alps lie Italy” and it was then that this section (Savoie) became a part lt;;f France. I hope his finds you people all well.Love to all,Pvt. First ClassGzro R. Pifer 15th Co.,2nd. M. M. Reg Air Service.A. E. F.| the Soane is a very beautiful valley and north from Lyon for miles and miles, entirely in cultivation, raising wheat, oats^, corn and vegetables, with vineyards along the slopes down to theivalley.Then too I have visited thefamous place for tourists, thebirthplace of Joan of Arc. Really I suppose one of the mostfamous and one of the most historical places of entire France.And a tourist who visits France doesn’t consider his tour complete without seeing it. In fact he has missed the place of all France most dear and sacred to the French people. It is located in a small village near the Mueseriver and right on the side of amountain. Up the mountainionly a short distance from the birthplace and by the way the house in which she is said to have been born is still preserved with a beautiful park around it,i iis the place she is supposed to
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Carlisle News
Carlisle, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1918
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