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TIVE LA FRANCE!" sketches a vivid picture of the heroic Spirit of France, which is typified in the idolized character of the Maid of Orleans.

The story opens in Rheims during the first bombardment by the Germans of that worshipped Cathedral, one of the best known and most beautiful buildings in the world.

Jeannette, the young heroine, and her dear old grandfather, a veteran of the war of 1870 and a wearer of the Cross of the Legion, leave Rheims, cross the devastated battlefield of the Marne and seek safety in Paris.

How Jeannette meets Eddie Reed, the American Ambulance driver; how she finds work to be done in the hospital at Neuilly; how she returns finally to her dear Rheims; what she finds there; the adventures and dangers she counters; the three sad messages from the front; and-well, the denouement to the story, all form a beautiful and inspiring narrative with an historically accurate background.

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Illustrated by E. B. Knipe
Price $1.50

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