TOFFRE'S HOUSEBOAT
Marshal Jofi’rc, speaking to an American correspondent months ago, said that his dearest wish niter the, war had ben won was to live in his barge and peacefully ply up and down the rivers and canals of France. Marshal dofirc's barge is not-, and has for soma time, been on the Seine, just. below Paris, at Bougival. To look at it, from the outside it is just an ordinary barge, such as ooa may see towed up the Seine carrying merclianaise, but. within Marshal JolTre'lias had arranged a comfortable, if exiguous dwelling-place, kitchen’, servants’ cabin, dining room, drawing room, two bedrooms, study, and library and smoking room, with a window looking out upon tile river. Marshal doff re's barge is called the Swan.
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Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 4
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125TOFFRE'S HOUSEBOAT Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 4
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