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The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 by Various
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enable reinforcements to be thrown across the waterways speedily.]




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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--23


[Illustration: THE MOST POPULAR FRENCH HEROINE OF '70: JULIETTE DODU
(WHO DIED THE OTHER DAY) PARDONED FOR HER GREAT BRAVERY.]

There has just died upon her little farm at Clarens, Switzerland,
"La demoiselle Juliette Dodu of Pithiviers," forty-four years ago a
telegraphist who outwitted the German invaders, was taken prisoner,
threatened with death, treated chivalrously by the "Red Prince" Friedrich
Karl, released on the proclamation of peace, decorated with the Cross of
the Legion of Honour, and retired to the little farm, where she ended her
days. The spirit of this romance of the Franco-German War of 1870-71 lives
in the picture by E.J. Delahaye. Chivalry was not then dead, and the "Red
Prince," father of our popular Duchess of Connaught, although Juliette
Dodu had hindered the German advance on Paris, shook her by the hand and
said that it was "an honour to meet so brave a woman."




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24--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]

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