[Illustration: Typical French Soldier in Uniform.] A Journey Through France in War Time By JOSEPH G. BUTLER, JR. Member of The American Industrial Commission to France. THE PENTON PRESS CLEVELAND 1917 [Illustration: inscription by author.] Copyright, 1917, by Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Youngstown, O. One hundred copies of this edition have been printed of which this is number 39 _Second Edition_ TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF FRANCE WHO AMID INEXPRESSIBLE SORROWS AND INFINITE CARES EXTENDED A GRACIOUS WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION AND TO THE AUTHOR THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED ***** CONTENTS CHAPTER I Origin of the Purpose of the Trip. CHAPTER II Crossing the Atlantic. CHAPTER III Bordeaux and Paris. CHAPTER IV Meeting England's Premier. CHAPTER V The Birthplace of Lafayette. CHAPTER VI A Great Munitions Plant. CHAPTER VII Art and Architecture of Aries. CHAPTER VIII Along the Mediterranean. CHAPTER IX Towns in Southern France. CHAPTER X The Creusot Gun Works. CHAPTER XI Approaching the Front. CHAPTER XII Within Sound of the Guns. CHAPTER XIII The Story of Gerbeviller. CHAPTER XIV On the Main Front. CHAPTER XV Reims and the Trenches. CHAPTER XVI Back to Paris. CHAPTER XVII On the Way Home--England. CHAPTER XVIII On the Broad Atlantic. CHAPTER XIX The French Steel Industry in War Time. CHAPTER XX Where War Has Raged. CHAPTER XXI General Joffre. CHAPTER XXII The Work of Reconstruction. CHAPTER XXIII French Business Organizations. CHAPTER XXIV The Carrel Method of Treating Wounds. CHAPTER XXV A City in an Army's Path. CHAPTER XXVI Some impressions of France and the French. ILLUSTRATIONS Typical French Soldier in Uniform Photograph of Commissioners, Taken on Train Leaving Paris for Limoges The Author's Passport Autograph Signatures of the Commission Grand Theatre, Bordeaux. Closed Until the War Ends Miniature French Flag Carried by the Author Through France. The Waving of This Flag by an American Aroused Much Enthusiasm Lloyd George, Who Says "England is Fighting a Battle for Civilization" Miss Winifred Holt, "Keeper of the Light House of France" Ancient Bridge at Limoges--Built by the Romans Two Thousand Years Ago and Still in Use Tapestry Workers at Aubusson Lafayette's Deathbed, With Commission's Flag and Flowers Monastery of St. Michael, at le Puy Silk Tapestry Menu Used at Dinner to the Commission at St. Etienne Col. Rimailho With 155-mm. Gun (upper) and Famous 75-mm. Gun (lower) Perfected by Him Women Employed in Munitions Factories Arlesiennes--Types of Southern France Old Roman Arena at Aries--Still Used for Bull Fights and Other Amusements Shore of the Mediterranean Near Marseilles. In the distance Chateau D'If, Made Famous by Dumas Types From the French Provinces Monastery of Chartreuse New 520-mm. Gun, Carrying Projectile Seven Feet in Length and Weighing 3,100 lbs., Seen at Creusot Works German Prisoners Passing Through the Village of St. Etienne