_50 yards to the left of G.C. 66 (coming from Autry) and 150 yards this side of Binarville._] Autry, like all the surrounding villages, has had a chequered history. It was besieged and taken by the English in 1359. At the beginning of the 17th century it was practically a deserted ruin. Under the _Fronde_ it suffered again. The Lord of Autry was one of the four knights who bore the canopy of the Sacred Ampulla during the consecration of the kings at Rheims. _The road winds round the rock on which stands_ the ruined church. St. Lambert’s Chapel in the cemetery contains some interesting frescoes. The château, which is below the church, dates from 1635. [Illustration: SERVON. GERMAN SHELTERS _Along G.C. 66, below site of destroyed Church._] [Illustration: ST. THOMAS. ROUTE DE SERVON, WITH BARRICADES AND TRENCHES (_Feb. 2, 1916_).] _Leave Autry by two bridges across the Aisne._ _Beyond the second bridge and the second house, there is a German structure under the cliff, on the right._ _On the left is the road to_ =Lançon=, the village where the French and American troops effected their junction during the offensive of September-October, 1918. _Keep along I.C. 21 in the direction of_ =Binarville.= _1 km. 700 beyond Autry, leave the road to Condé-les-Autry on the right. 500 yards this side of Binarville and 200 yards before the fork with G.C. 66 coming from Varennes, there is_ a French military cemetery _on the left_. [Illustration: FRENCH DEFENCE WORKS AND DRESSING-STATION _G.C. 66, between Servon and St. Thomas._] _Just before reaching Binarville, fifty yards to the left of the road, are_ two large German concrete structures, a post of commandment, and a telephone exchange (_photo, p._ 92). The village of Binarville, and the adjacent hamlet of =Mare-aux-Bœufs=, were occupied by the Germans from 1914 to 1918, and were only recaptured in September, 1918, by the French 4th Army. Binarville was completely destroyed. _Outside the village, leave on the left the (impassable) road from Vienne-le-Château, and keep straight on along G.C. 66._ _Two kilometres further on_, a few houses in ruins mark the site of Mare-aux-Bœufs. _Keep to the left, leaving on the right the road from Condé-les-Autry._ _Fire hundred yards beyond Mare-aux-Bœufs, on the left, there is_ a German post of commandment in concrete, with rooms, shelter and telephone exchange. An Iron Cross is carved on one of the doors. [Illustration: FRENCH DEFENCE WORKS BETWEEN SERVON AND ST. THOMAS] _Keep along G.C. 66, past numerous defence-works and shelters, some in concrete._ This region, an excellent artillery position and a veritable stronghold, from which the Germans launched many counter-attacks against the right flank of the French 4th Army, during the offensive of September 26, 1918, was liberated by the French on September 30, after a heroic struggle. _Five kilometres beyond Binarville is_ =Servon.=