"Plage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arrived one day at the Hotel de la Plage, accompanied by her granddaughter, whom she had taken away from the convent before the beginning of the holidays. Since she had fully arranged the marriage with M. de Talbrun, it seemed important that Giselle should acquire some liveliness, and recruit her health, before the fatal wedding-day arrived. ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon
... Engineers' stores about midnight. When we first took over the sector, the French caused much alarm to our men by carrying their stores to and from the Bethune Road by electric trucks, actually the chassis and platforms of trains from Paris Plage, to which the bells used for warning pedestrians were still attached. One brakesman, Alphonse by name, like a wise person, usually went about his own business on arrival at the Bethune Road Dump, which was often a warm spot. The driver meanwhile ...
— The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 - History of the 1/8th Battalion • W.C.C. Weetman |
