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Dec. 12Chancellor von Bethman-Hollweg announces in reichstag that Germany will propose peace; new cabinet in France under Aristide Briand as premier, and Gen. Robert Georges Nivelle given chief of command of French army.

The clergy had immense possessions in this country; an act of the following century recognizes fourteen thousand families of vassals as belonging to the single abbey of Nivelle.

At General Nivelle's Headquarters XVIII Rheims XIX

The defence of Verdun through the bitter months of February and March by General Petain, a defence which is now under the immediate control of his able lieutenants General Nivelle and General Dubois, has earned the respect and admiration of the whole world.

He then telephoned to General Nivelle the necessary permission for us to enter Verdun.

As for Verdun, tell them in England that I am smiling and I am sure that when you see General Nivelle you will find him smiling too.

" As we passed through the Headquarters of General Nivelle, he sent down word to us not to wait to call on him then, but to proceed at once to Verdun as later the passage would become more difficult.

He had that day received from General Nivelle his "cravate" as Commander of the Legion of Honour, and his officers were giving him a dinner-party to celebrate the event.

At General Nivelle's Headquarters From Triancourt we went straight to the Headquarters of General Nivelle.

At General Nivelle's Headquarters From Triancourt we went straight to the Headquarters of General Nivelle.

Good news had also come in from the Somme, and General Nivelle did not hesitate to express his admiration for the British soldiers.

" The Father of his own men, it is not surprising that General Nivelle finds a warm corner in his heart for the British Tommy, since his Mother was an Englishwoman.

At lunch General Nivelle and the members of his staff asked many questions as to the work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.

I told General Nivelle that the hospital staff intended to keep the child for the soldier until the end of the war, and we all hoped that he might grow up to the glory of France and to the eternal honour of the tender-hearted fighter who had rescued him.

We left General Nivelle as General Petain predicted we should find himsmiling.

The chanoinesses of Nivelle spent their morning in religious duties, but the rest of the day they were at liberty to mix with the outer world.

" This independence excited the jealousy of the Church, and in May, 820, Nivelle received a visit from Valcand, the reigning bishop of Liège.

For some moments no one moved or spoke, but a low murmur swept over the young sisters of Nivelle Abbey.

" The bishop declared that he would maintain the rule given by the Council at Aix, and then descending from the pulpit, he ordered his people to follow him at once out of Nivelle, refusing to join in any of the festivities prepared in his honor.

She sent a courier to the Pope, and another to Louis le Debonaire; but the wise abbess took yet further precautions: she at once organized a council at Nivelle of all the abbesses of the French Empire, requiring silence from them, and assuring them of security in the town.

Regina was a chanoinesse, and it was the custom when a member of the circle at the abbey married, that the marriage should be solemnized at Nivelle.

CHIEN DE JEAN DE NIVELLE, the dog that never came when it was called.