From Convent to Conflict

About this eBook

Author

Marie Antoine, Sister, 1889-

Title

From Convent to Conflict; Or, A Nun's Account of the Invasion of Belgium

Credits

E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)

Subject

Couvent des Filles de Marie (Willebroeck, Belgium)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 56299

Release Date

January 3, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.From Convent to Conflict
2. 2.Introduction
3. 3.Letter of Introduction — TRANSLATION.
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.CHAPTER I. Boarding School in the Couvent des Filles de Marie, Willebroeck, Prov. d’Anvers, Belgique, July, 1914.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. Daily School Life.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. The Parochial School, Convent and Garden.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. The Cloister.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. The Approaching Storm.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. Changes.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. War.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. The Carnage of Battle.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. The Return of the Army.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. Anxious Days.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. The Flight of the Refugees.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. The Results of War.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. Our Departure.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. Arrival in Antwerp.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. Extracts from Letters of Our Refugee Sisters.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. The Exodus to England.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. London and Leeds.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. The Refugees in England.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. Homeward Bound.

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