Two kilometres further, on the left, an avenue planted with trees leads to the +Villa Automne+, belonging to M. Charles Benoist, member of the "Institut" and deputy of Paris. There the Germans installed an ambulance which received the wounded of the first battles with the Moroccans at Penchard. Those who succumbed, among them several officers, were buried in the garden of the estate. The Moroccans captured the ambulance when they re-took possession of Penchard. The villa had been ransacked; the most highly appreciated trophy being the owner's peaceful academician's sword. _At the entrance to =Penchard= (19 km.), keep to the right as far as the town-hall square, where the motor can be left_. _By the road which borders the town-hall on the right (about 150 yards from there and going past the church)_ we reach the edge of the Penchard woods where the view on the following page was taken. The tourist who enters these woods for a walk, or a rest, will find graves here and there, the last traces of the furious battles that were fought around. Penchard was attacked the first time on September 5 by the Moroccan brigade, which came from the Chauconin-Neufmontiersline, over which the tourist has already travelled. The struggle was a desperate and particularly bloody one on the edge of the wood now before us, as also in the gardens of the neighbouring houses. The Moroccans had the advantage in this hand-to-hand fight and towards noon succeeded in taking the village, which they held for several hours under a violent bombardment. [Illustration: THE PLAIN AT THE FOOT OF PENCHARD] But we know that during this time the 55th division's attack on Monthyon had failed, and the Moroccans, unsupported on their left, had to withdraw beyond Chauconin-Neufmontiers. On the 6th the brigade, renewing its efforts, found Penchard evacuated and went on to the village of Chambry, towards which we will now direct our steps. When leaving Penchard the Germans posted several spies in the woods, their mission being to signal the positions of the French troops and artillery to the aviators. [Illustration: MONUMENT OF THE FOUR ROADS] One of them was caught and shot at the entrance to the wood in the evening of the 8th. He wore the red-cross armlet and on him were found pennons and rockets which he used for signalling. _We must retrace our steps as far as the fork of the road at the entrance to the village and take the road that runs to the right._ _Immediately after this we come to the crossways of three roads; we follow the middle one which goes towards Chambry._ We arrive at the +Monument des Quatre-routes+, so called because it is placed at the crossing of the Barcy to Meaux road with that from Penchard to Chambry. [Illustration: PATRIOTIC CEREMONY AT CHAMBRY (_Photo from l'Illustration_)] This monument was raised by the engineers, by order of General Gallieni, to the memory of the Army of Paris.