Le Bois-le-Prêtre—Description—History—Les Glycines, "Wisteria Villa"—The Road to the trenches—At the trenches—The painter's idea of "le sinistre dans l'art"—The sign post—The zone of violence—The Quart-en-Réserve—The village caught in the torment of the lines—The dead on the barbed wire—"The Road to Metz."
V. THE TRENCHES IN THE "WOOD OF DEATH."
The Trenches—Organization—Nature of the war—Food, shelters, clothing, ammunition, etc.—A typical day in the trenches—Trench shells or "crapouilots"—In the abri—The tunnel—The doctrinaire lieutenant of engineers.
VI. THE GERMANS ATTACK
The piano at Montauville—An interrupted concert—At the Quart—The battle for the ridge of the Wood—Fall of the German aeroplane—Psychology of the men in the trenches—Religion in the trenches—
VII. THE TOWN IN THE TRENCHES
Poor old "Pont"—Description of the town—A civilian's story—The house of the Captain of the Papal Zouaves—Church of St. Laurent—The Cemetery and its guardian.
VIII. MESSIEURS LES POILUS DE LA GRANDE GUERRE
En repos—A village of troops—Manners and morals—The concert—journal of the Bois-le-Prêtre—Various poilus.