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CITIES and VILLAGES

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ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

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SUCY en BRIE

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Sucy en Brie

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chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL.

Sucy-en-Brie. Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

 When the lunch bell rings at Grand Val a large estate near Paris which has been converted

into a country home for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these delicate children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

Refugee children going to mass on Assumption Day at Grand Val a large estate near Paris

which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

 Personally conducted by an AMERICAN RED CROSS man a party of refugee children

arrives at Grand Val, a large estate near Paris which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these delicate children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

Refugee children going to mass on Assumption Day at Grand Val a large estate near Paris

which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

 Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

One of the soldier boys helps with the farm horses at Grand Val, a large estate near Paris

which has been converted into a country home for the delicate children

among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these delicate children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

Boy scouts and refugee children equally intereate, in ducks and chickens at Grand Val,

a large estate near Paris which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these delicate children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

Driving the sheep, one of the country occupations which the children enjoy at Grand Val

a large estate near Paris which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

The children having their luncheon under the trees at Grand Val a large estate near Paris

which has been converted into a country home for the delicate children

among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

Feeding the sheep at Grand Val large estate near Paris which has been converted

into a country home for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improve remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

Games.

Refugee children playing games in the grounds at Grand Val a large estate near Paris

which has been converted into a country home for the delicate children

among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

 The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie.

 Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice.

A crippled French soldier wearing the the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire

won by his heroism at the Somme keeps to care for the children at Grand Val.

This large estate near Paris where rufugee children who are delicate and need a country life are sent from St. Sulpice in Paris where they received on being driven from their homes.

 The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to take care for these children

whose improvement in healthy surroundings is remarkable

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

chateau grand val sucy en brie red cross croix rouge saint sulpice ww1 1914 1918 guerre children enfants

A little refugee girl with one of her best friends Capt. Bernard of the AMERICAN RED CROSS.

 This child was in pitiful condition of dirt and malnutrition when she first came to St. Sulpice Paris.

She is now one of the most attractive and healthy of the children at Grand Val,

a large estate near Paris which has been converted into a country home

for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris.

 The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these delicate children

whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

August 1918

Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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