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Show Comvieqne, Dear to the Hearts of Fre was that monarch who here welcomed Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated daughter daugh-ter of Maria Theresa, to France when at the age of fifteen she became the bride of the dauphin, the future Iuis XVI. It vrjs here also that that other Austrian princess, Marie Ixufse, spent her brief but happy honeymoon with Napoleon I. As an evidence of the Emperor's infatuation for his brido fan infatuation which caused Metternich to write that "he is so evidently In love with her that he cannot conceal his feelings and all his customary ways of life are subordinate to her wishes") there la still to be seen in the park t-urrounding the palace an iron trellis which he ordered buiit to remind the nineteen-y par-old empress of her favorite trellis at Srhoenbrunn. This incident is reminiscent reminis-cent of the devotion displayed by the Babylonian king who built ore of the seven wonders of the world the hanging garden in order thy t his bride rnicht not be without her native iTjr scenery even ,.6 n the plains COMPIEGNE. the most important city alonfr the line of the attempted advance of the Germans on the Noyon-Montdidier Noyon-Montdidier front, is situated on the southeast bank of the River Olse, Just a mile below its confluence with the Aisne. It had a population of 17,000 at the outbreak of the war. and 3 fifty-two miles by rail northeast of Paris on the Paris-St. Quentin Kail-way, Kail-way, forty -five miles southeast of Amiens, and twenty-five miles west of Soissons. It is one of the most interesting cities in this part of France, having been known as Compendium In the days of Clovis. Its beautiful location, on the northwestern fringe of the superb su-perb forest of Complegne, made it a favorite country residence of many French monnrehs. The forest, which contains more than 35jOQ acres and is fifty-eight miles in circumference, was for centuries a great royal hunting preserve. It was Eoui XV whVi commissioned Gabriel to build thp r ;f.cent palace, which is still weil -,-ved. and it It was at Compjeg i saddest episodes in.,, ' lor,.,. ;1I(J Ut , ,.n, j, occurred the captur by the Burgundlans V' hMnln" by her martyrdom v. ho v. ;jk. thin, twelve months latr "r run-flown, t' Before tho war C vi yri'i will bon industrial town of r,','r r t i" r" ho'iV Vn portanco, its chief ,f no-irrnwr " boat building, rope 1;- "'r,"f' ':!l'rlv f,,''r and tho manufacti, tKiM n I m'-jv." " - fuy -machinery, sacks, cl- ,',n,r' I, j-;,.; j i i .ptlv :t' jijit ( l In 1814 Compien nnn in Ht ' ini"1 resistance to the Pru TI"!P M'ird - -Franco-Prussian cJ '(-,,'' f f.rv ri t t n' i m m ,'-'J 1871 Jt was one of .'J'a'-Mr"! hi M-i'-t m of the German arm . " ,;i,ro. ,.rr,r Now. and for al' 1 ,r-1 1 1 ' ","lr",' ;,! ,! ,::: -1 v.-'.1h ;i:,y of !"' Complegne will be de-j--,V d I'-mrs rr w:'j"- of the French people" "" -;t 1 -Owi:h H't'-ti-Pho'.pb-,' war, once a ravor.V rC!iRVlnci ptvous nr--;.. Louis XV, Louis :xa f-r;ii we-V..ni n. t t.ut , . V flesh c(rrwinq pri1- Louin Philipp-. t)!'d hc UCiJri -,v pnyorr: but because on Chri;-trrto mil on fic-.h. there was born here ( f : ' r-'"!-t , mcr, "Ace of Aces," ' man of Franoa. t |