Oh god the historian in me fell in love with this the second I started reading it. The fact that you put effort into including the details of the war, of what it did to France is just. . .astounding. There are so few fics like this and this one has reached the top of my list.

Thank you so much for writing it it.

I remember this from the meme. A truly gorgeous piece, bravo!

"And their system of alliances was supposed to have prevented war, not to drag the entire of Europe into one!" so true..

"It was no use hoping that England would come back intact, because it was a war, after all, and a war on a scale so grand that the world had never seen before. As he waved the man off, he thought, maybe, if he could come back, that would be enough." ..

sad yet beautiful fic love it :]

That was beautiful. Sad, but beautiful.

thanks for sharing it!