Chapters (98)
- LILLE BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR
- LILLE
- ORIGIN AND CHIEF HISTORICAL EVENTS
- LILLE AND THE GREAT WAR
- Importance and Military Situation of Lille in 1914
- How Lille fell in 1914
- The Deliverance
- THE GERMAN OCCUPATION
- The Hostages and War Contributions
- Passes
- Famine
- THE REIGN OF TERROR
- The Case of the Four
- Execution of Léon Trulin
- The Explosion of the "Dix-huit Ponts"
- The Deportations
- The Ruined Industries of Northern France
- VISIT TO THE TOWN
- FIRST ITINERARY
- The Grande Place
- The "Bourse"
- The Palais de Rihour
- The Church of St. Maurice
- SECOND ITINERARY
- THE MUSEUM OF LILLE
- VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
- THIRD ITINERARY
- From the Grande Place to the Citadelle
- The Palais Rameau
- The Citadelle
- Church of Saint-André.
- Church of St. Catherine
- FOURTH ITINERARY
- THE OLD TOWN
- ROUBAIX GATE
- ROUBAIX-TOURCOING
- ROUBAIX
- TOURCOING
- CONTENTS
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