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The configuration of that part of Northern France from where I come is rather deceptive. It is is an extended plain which runs north of Paris to the Maas Valley at Namur in Belgium, north across to Germany and which then vanishes in the polders of Holland. There is no natural reason why anything should ever have arrested the mobility and circulation of people dwelling on that great flat expanse. Indeed, artificial political frontiers on principles differing from those of plain geography were quite a late arrival in our part of the world.
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© 1990 Jacques Darras and Daniel Snowman
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Darras, J., Snowman, D. (1990). Re-Crossing the Somme. In: Beyond the Tunnel of History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20690-2_7
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