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Title: The Children of France
A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of
Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War

Author: Ruth Royce

Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16437]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "I OUGHT TO DUMP YOU OUT."]

THE CHILDREN OF FRANCE

A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice
of Youthful Patriots of France During
the Great War

By

RUTH ROYCE

PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

1918

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THEIR FIRST HERO

II. REMI THE BRAVE

III. THE HEROINE OF FORT MONTERE

IV. FRANCOIS OUTWITS THE PRUSSIANS

V. THE SACRIFICE OF LITTLE PIERRE

VI. A LITTLE SOLDIER OF FRANCE

VII. SAVED BY A CHILD'S WIT

VIII. THE CHILD DESPATCH BEARER

IX. GENE AND THE BAVARIAN DRAGOONS

X. A LITTLE SOLDIER OF MERCY

XI. A BRAVE LITTLE COWARD

XII. THE HERO OF THE GUNS

XIII. MARIE THE COURAGEOUS

XIV. CONCLUSION

AUTHOR'S NOTE

While the Author cannot personally vouch for the stories related in
this volume, she has full confidence in the sources of her
information--men who have seen and heard on the battlefields of
France, and who have related to her these and many other like
incidents illustrating the heroism of the Children of France. Some of
the stories the relators have learned through personal observation,
while others have come to them indirectly. The author, therefore,
believes each story set down here to be authentic, and so offers them
to the liberty-loving boys and girls of America.

THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

The story of the heroism of the Childre