Fighting France: World war 1

Written during the first world war by Staphane Lauzanne, who was at the outbreak of war, editor of the French newspaper Paris Matin - 


The obligation of universal service required him to exchange his position of great power and usefulness for a lesser position, but this spirit of common service in the ranks means much for France or for any nation. The democracy of the French Army could not be questioned, when the powerful Editor of the Matin became merely a lieutenant in the Territorial Infantry.