For one can rarely talk with French officers about General Gouraud without coming across the statement: "He is beloved by his army.

He has done so much for the soldiers." But not a word of his own share appeared in his conversation with me.
The talk passed on to the German attack on the French front in Champagne on July 15th, that perfectly-planned defence in which, to quote General Gouraud's own stirring words to his soldiers: "You broke the strength and the hopes of the enemy.

That day Victory changed her camp.

She has been faithful to us ever since." It makes one of the most picturesque stories of the war.

The German offensive which broke out, as we know, along the whole of their new Marne front on July 15th, had been exactly anticipated for days before it began by General Gouraud and his Staff.