The author fell seriously ill and spent several weeks from the beginning of January, 1917, in the hospital at Châlons-sur-Marne.
At the end of February, 1917, he again took up his work with General Pétain.
In the attack of Mont-sans-Nom, he accompanied the Morocco Division (Champagne, April 17, 1917).
Captain Capart left France June 2, 1917, for the United States as a member of a Scientific Mission which collaborated with officials of this Government just two months after America became an Ally against Prussianism.
CHAPTER EIGHT
GENERAL GOURAUD'S POILU, CHAMPAGNE.
December, 1916.
General Gouraud, when speaking of his poilus, never fails to tell the following story: "It was during a violent bombardment—The men are in their dugouts, save only the lookouts——