Our period of rest was divided between Burbure and Busnes, and in both places the mesdemoiselles and the estaminets were a source of real delight to the men of the 7th. ❋ S. J. Wilson (N/A)
The men soon learnt that the estaminets were the equivalent in France of the public houses at home, and thither they repaired in the evening to spend their time. ❋ Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts (N/A)
At this point the Battalion turned in a south-westerly direction, passing through a village in which the French and English Headquarters were quartered in "estaminets" on either side of the road. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"Their niggardly proposals will turn London into Paris!" he said, not meaning full of cosy estaminets and accordion players, but surrounded by banlieues packed with rioting youths in balaclavas. ❋ Simon Hoggart (2010)
The young men of the schools and the estaminets (celebrated places of public education) allured by the noble words of Prince ❋ Unknown (2006)
She calls ce gros Blackball, vous savez, that pillar of estaminets, that prince of mauvais-ton, her ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was pleasant to pass people eating outside their doors, and to hear the fierce mechanical pianos behind the vines of country estaminets. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There were the additional attractions of estaminets and shops in the neighbouring villages, especially Verquin, where we had many a good dinner, and drank many bottles of Veuve Cliquot at the estaminet of a great favourite of the Battalion, Mlle. Bertha. ❋ W. C. C. Weetman (N/A)
On the 13th March the non-commissioned officers celebrated the anniversary of the Battalion's first arrival in France by arranging a kind of concert in one of the estaminets in Estaires. ❋ Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts (N/A)
I recollect that Heidsieck 1906 was then only ten francs the bottle -- and its estaminets, the town held few attractions. ❋ Geoffrey Keith Rose (N/A)
In the way of entertainments we had little or nothing, and Maison Ponthieu itself boasted nothing more than one or two estaminets. ❋ W. C. C. Weetman (N/A)
Christmas Day provided an ample fare in addition to the ordinary rations, small parties engaging rooms in estaminets and farms, purchasing the very limit of eatables obtainable with what financial lengths were at their disposal, obtained bottles of port and gave vent to an unbounded vein of hilarious humour and uproarious chorus in celebration of a Christmas that many knew would be their last. ❋ A. Stanley Blicq (N/A)
Laventie cross-roads on most days and, when a 12 inch howitzer established itself behind the village, the Germans retaliated upon it with 5. 9s, but otherwise shops and estaminets flourished with national nonchalance. ❋ Geoffrey Keith Rose (N/A)
There were few Y.M.C.A. huts so far behind the lines, and the short time up to nine was usually spent in the _estaminets_. ❋ Robert Derby Holmes (N/A)
There was small attraction in the village except one or two shops and estaminets, but you could get anything from chewing gum upwards at "Lane's Emporium," and the inhabitants were so extremely kind that we lacked little. ❋ W. C. C. Weetman (N/A)
Y.M.C.A. hut or in the _estaminets_ while we were in Petite-Saens. ❋ Robert Derby Holmes (N/A)
Although it was very late a number of troops were still singing uproariously in the various estaminets which I passed. ❋ Gerald Featherstone Knight (N/A)
While at Dranoutre we associated with the inhabitants, in the stores and estaminets. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)
There can be no fair distinction -- they all, taken as a unit, are in a class separated by a wide gulf from those back in supporting or reserve or artillery positions, who, in turn, are separated from the transport and ambulance drivers, who, while occasionally under shell fire, are in the zone of comparative safety, where "people" still live and farm and run stores and estaminets. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)
