Fleury-sur-Aire

Friday 4 September 1914 : The 106th RI continues its retreat southwards, and stops at the edge of the village on the road to Nubécourt. Maurice Genevoix and Those of 14 eat their meal in a field, and a few soldiers even bathe in the Aire to cool down, oppressed by the heat.
“We stop on the way out of Fleury-sur-Aire. Dozens of men arrive with huge quarters of a flat cheese” (Quote from the book by Maurice Genevoix, Ceux de 14, Editions Flammarion)