Project Gutenberg 2025-03-29 Public domain in the USA. 284 O'Shaughnessy, Edith 1870 1939 O'Shaughnessy, Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Edith Louise Coues My Lorraine journal $aNew York :$bHarper & Brothers, $c1920. MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) “My Lorraine Journal” by Edith O’Shaughnessy is a personal historical account written in the early 20th century. The work documents the author’s experiences traveling through Lorraine, France, during the First World War, offering observations of war’s devastation, the ongoing efforts at reconstruction, and the resilience of local people. The narrative blends travel writing, memoir, and eyewitness reporting, told from the perspective of a visiting American woman closely connected with diplomatic and relief circles. The opening of the journal begins with O’Shaughnessy recounting the serendipitous events that led her from Paris to the war-torn region of Lorraine. She describes the initial invitation to visit Lunéville, the administrative hurdles of obtaining travel papers, and her evolving journey as she moves through stations filled with soldiers, ruined villages, and reminders of war’s toll. Her early entries focus on encounters with French civilians and military personnel, poignant scenes of destruction and renewal, and the emotional atmosphere in places like Nancy, Lunéville, Vitrimont, and Bar-le-Duc. The writing vividly captures both the landscape—lush and blooming despite the scars of conflict—and O’Shaughnessy’s inner reactions to the contrast between beauty, history, and suffering that defines wartime Lorraine. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/mylorrainejourna0000unse 20220209221746oshaughnes 1920 US Reading ease score: 74.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives D501 Text Category: Biographies Category: Travel Writing Category: French Literature Category: American Literature Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) 396078 2025-06-30T04:57:45.088786 text/html 370079 2025-03-29T16:04:49 text/html 1406492 2025-06-30T04:57:53.079768 application/epub+zip 1403929 2025-06-30T04:57:47.103871 application/epub+zip 395923 2025-06-30T04:57:45.904828 application/epub+zip 2218102 2025-06-30T04:57:57.221812 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2168374 2025-06-30T04:57:52.182740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 347120 2025-06-30T04:57:44.121814 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 327261 2025-03-29T16:04:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15968 2025-06-30T04:57:57.359716 application/rdf+xml 16077 2025-06-30T04:57:46.230826 image/jpeg 2390 2025-06-30T04:57:46.064824 image/jpeg 2105131 2025-06-30T04:57:45.174796 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia