He had brought his regiment in the middle of the night-it was in the first month of the war, on the 22nd of August, 1914-to the junction of those three roads one of which ran from Belgian luxemburg.
"The Woman of Mystery"
Maurice Leblanc
That wretched couple, who certainly had the excuse that they were not Alsatians, as they pretended to be, but of luxemburg birth, accepted the bribe.
"The Woman of Mystery"
Maurice Leblanc
She was in luxemburg within a few hours of the declaration of war with Russia; and it was clearly her intention to "rush" Paris and then turn back upon Russia.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter