Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard men we are not without a certain esprit de corps. Last Saturday, for example, we gathered, a round dozen of us, at a French restaurant in Soho and enjoyed ourselves immensely at an informal little dinner at which Dr. Silberling '14 did the honors...
Lieutenant L'Huillier, who gave an interesting address before the Cercle Francais two weeks ago, is military attache with the French Embassy at Washington, and he speaks, not only as a soldier of France, but as a graduate of the Universities of Paris and Dijon, speaking to fellow University...
...Andre L'Huillier enlisted as a private in the French Army at the age of 18, and during the first year of the war was wounded twice, at the Argonne and at Champagne. He was then awarded the Croix de Guerre with a star, to which another star and two palms have since been added. During the remainder of the war he received two more wounds, and was awarded the Medaille Militaire and the Legion d'Honneur...
...obeyed the laws of this nation. He left the Austrian army some time before we declared war on that empire. Large parts of his earnings have been devoted to the upkeep of a home for indigent artists and musicians, and until recently he sent money to several British and French officers--musicians and artists--who were held in Austria. It is not unlikely, as he himself points out, that while he is prevented from following his profession, and unable to continue the remittances, these officers will be hard put for a living...
Lieutenant Andre L'Huillier will speak in Phillips Brooks House next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock on "Reconstruction Work in France," dealing especially with the work being done in the Champagne-Argonne Sector Lieutenant L'Huillier, who is the military attache with the French Embassy at Washington, received four wounds during the war, and was decorated with the Medaille Militaire, the Croix de Guerre with two palms and two stars, and the Legion d'Honneur...