_After having examined the panorama of the marshes, return to the road which leads to the church and continue it in the direction of the farm_, seen in the photograph above. It suffered much from successive French and German bombardments. As may be observed, the work of reparation has begun. The French, when driven from the farm, took shelter in the wood a few hundred yards away on the other side of the road. It was from the wood that they began the counter-attack which gave them back the farm, as well as the castle and the church. _We retrace our steps to the castle, leaving the road which continues to follow the edge of the plateau in the direction of Montgivroux, and rejoins No. 51, below Soizy._ This part of the plateau was carried by the German attacks coming from the Poirier and the Woods of Saint-Gond (see p. 170). The "tirailleurs" fought heavy engagements at this point. _On returning to the castle take the Broyes road_ (G. C. 45) _which passes before the gates, then pass through the woods_ in which the 77th and the troops of the Moroccan Division which took Mondement found shelter, and _so on to =Broyes= and the Castle des Pucelles which we saw at the beginning of our excursion_. _Turn to the right into_ G. C. 39 _and cross the village. At the cross-roads beyond Broyes, turn to the left and return to =Sézanne=, down a long slope which offer a fine view of the plain and of the heights surrounding it. At the crossing beyond the cemetery take the Rue de Broyes. In the middle, turn to the right and regain the hotel (65 km.) for lunch, by way of the Rue de la Halle and the Place de la République._ FROM SÉZANNE TO CHÂLONS-SUR-MARNE (106 km.) via +Connantre+, +Fère-Champenoise+, +Connantray+, +Sommesous+, +Haussimont+, +Vassimont+, +Lenharrée+, +Normée+. _Return to the Place de la République and descend towards the lower part of the town by the Rue des Lombards; without crossing the railway turn to the left along a road planted with trees. This is N. 34, which traverses the plain in a perfectly straight line, and which is to be seen in the panorama on pp. 160-163._ On the left, on the horizon the heights of Sézanne, Broyes, Allemant, and Mont-Chalmont are once more visible. _After a run of 10 km. we reach the villages of =Linthes= and =Linthelles=_, from which the counter-attack of the 42nd Division started on September 9. At that time, in the plain stretching to the left of the road, the French troops, which had been driven from the edge of the marshes and even from Mont-Août, were falling back southwards. With them, too, were those who had been pushed back from the line of the Somme on to Fère-Champenoise, Connantre, and still further beyond. These troops, although worn out by four days' fighting, and exposed to violent artillery fire from the north, east, and south, would not give in, and took every opportunity for rearguard actions.