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Title: A history of United States Army Base Hospital No. 36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cooper, Alice Evelyn, ed Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery
Subjects: United States. Army. Base hospital no. 36, Vittel, France
Publisher: (Detroit)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n, while the pet pigeon strolled among the dishes. Shewas a shrewd business woman, from whom escaped not one little towel or pillow-case. AndMadame Blanchon!! Only a Balzac could do justice to her eccentricities. Fond of money shewas—and yet that was not her only aim, for she gathered objects with passionate eagerness.When burlap came, wrapped around some of our goods, she hemmed it for floor rags and fur-iously berated the maids as it wore out. She was reputed wealthy, we know the Blanchons ownedmuch property, yet she dressed in calico and collected tomatoes thrown out by the hospitals toput them up in jars! But speaking of her cooking, ah! at that she was nothing short of a genius.She could be kindly and generous too, although when in a temper her angry screams wereheard for blocks around. Mme. Blanchons great concern was tender solicitude for her delicateold husband and the quiet pathos in her face, when he was ill with pneumonia, endeared her to usin spite of her idiosyncracies.
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Our French FriendsFirst Coluinn:—Old French woman ivith donkey cart; A fuiiiiliar fiyiirc in Park; Captain Norman; Madame Blanchon. Second Colutnn:—The Misses Malvoisin: Ernestine Poirson To To. Third Column:—The lace maker; Madame Paris and Madame Oiidot; Dr. and Madame Fay; Madame Laprevote and her daughter. 163 A protegee of the Blanchons was )\Ime. Jeanne, the Merry Widow and belle chocolatiereof Vittel. She loudly bemoaned the loss of her husband in the war (his picture hung above herbed) but found some consolation in the brass buttons and Sam Brown belts which daily congre-gated at her chocolate shop under the Arcade. Our French friends—Madame Michalle, theconcierge of the Nurses Hut, will always be remembered for her kindly interest in us all. There were other nice shops under the arcade in summ.er but in winter we fell back on thevillage stores. Crowley-Milner, alias Humboldt-Noel, was the largest, and the family livedbehind the shop in cosy proximity. The barber and h

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