The position of Mondement had thus lost all advanced protection and so fell on the following day, but the same evening it was retaken (_see pp. 176-178_), and from this moment the battle was lost for the Germans. The Tenth Corps, by means of its outflanking movement described on p. 169, obliged them to re-cross the Morin at Saint-Prix (below Botrait Woods, panorama I.). The flank of the marshes was thus turned. During the night of the 9th-10th, the German troops hurriedly regained the northern edge by the causeways running from Oyes, Reuves, and Broussy (panorama III.). _Rejoin_ G. C. 44 _and turn to the left towards Oyes (50 km.)._ The village still bears traces of the bombardment during its heroic defence by Blondlat's Brigade. _Turn to the right, thus leaving the church on the left, and, passing through the village, turn to the left to regain the marshes_, in the middle of which stands the old =Priory of Saint-Gond=. The entrance, seen in the photograph above, is on the right of the road (51 km.). [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE PRIORY OF SAINT-GOND] Saint-Gond, who gave his name to the marshes, was a seventh century hermit. Charmed by the solitude of the spot, he there founded a little monastery. Destroyed during the barbaric invasions, then rebuilt, it became an abbey and later a priory, after which its decline was rapid. All that remains to-day consists of the entrance (view above), and in the interior, a door (seen on the opposite view behind the Abbé Millard). The Abbé Millard who occupied the priory is an elderly ecclesiastic who divides his time between studies and rural tasks. In the photographs on this page he is seen in the simple apparel which he prefers. He is a distinguished historian and member of several learned societies. [Illustration: REUVES CHURCH AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT] The Abbé Millard, who was recovering from a long illness, reluctantly left his hermitage a little before the arrival of the Germans. The sharp-shooters had established on the road opposite his house a barricade flanked by machine-guns behind which they tried to stem the German advance; but the latter surmounted this obstacle and advanced on Oyes. _Leaving the priory, we come across the road which runs from Villevenard, on the right of the marshes, to Oyes and Reuves, on the left._ This was the road taken by the Germans who attacked Oyes and Reuves for three days. They suffered heavy losses from the fire of the French artillery which swept Villevenard and the causeways, but came resolutely on and carried the two villages on September 8, in spite of the heroic defence of Blondlat's Brigade. _At the cross-roads turn to the right towards =Reuves= (53 km.) and traverse its length._ It suffered terribly. The views on this page show the state of the church after the bombardment.