Louise Borden
Louise Borden
amazing foresight george last leave minute people saved turned waited
I don't know why they waited to the last minute to leave Paris. But they had amazing foresight and luck. It's not too much to say that George saved their lives. Many people were turned back.
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I had to make some order out of all this paper. That's why it took years to write this book.
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We all saw the evacuation of Houston during the hurricane. In the exodus from Paris, five million people hit the road in fear of the impending battle. After the French surrendered without a defense of Paris, many moved back. For me, the drama was that evacuation. I could not get the image of two people on bicycles in that flood of refugees out of my head.