This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... MY MARCH TO TIMBUCTOO INTRODUCTION I. JOFFRE THE SOLDIER Joseph-jacques-cesaire Joffre was born at Rivesaltes on January 12, 1852. Rivesaltes is a town of six thousand inhabitants, six miles north of Perpignan, in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales, the most southern of France, formed at the Revolution ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... MY MARCH TO TIMBUCTOO INTRODUCTION I. JOFFRE THE SOLDIER Joseph-jacques-cesaire Joffre was born at Rivesaltes on January 12, 1852. Rivesaltes is a town of six thousand inhabitants, six miles north of Perpignan, in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales, the most southern of France, formed at the Revolution from the province of Roussillon. The population is different from that of the neighbouring country extending between Toulouse and Narbonne. The Roussillon people are mountaineers, speaking a Catalan dialect near akin to that spoken on the other side of the Pyrenees. All except very old peasants understand French, but it is none the less true that both the B language and the sequestered situation of the Roussillon valleys isolate the Catalans from their neighbours in the plains. Their characteristics are quite as marked as those of a Gaelic neighbourhood in the north of Scotland might be thirty years ago. Like all the mountaineers in the south of France they are either silent and almost sullen, or over-excited; but they have much native dignity and natural elegance. A true Spanish courtesy never leaves them, even when heated and on the verge of anger. A sister of General Joffre who recently gave to an inquirer valuable information about her parentage, says that there is a tradition in the family attributing to them a Spanish origin. The general's great-grandfather is supposed to have been a Spaniard of good birth, who left his country for political reasons, and on becoming French changed his name, which was de Gouffre to Jofrre. A few hours spent at the Rivesaltes town-hall in a rapid investigation of the records would be enough to ascertain whether there is more in this tradition than the universal taste for ancestry belonging to rising...
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