📖 Le Front russe

You are sent to the Russian front! This is a new one. I did not want to discuss this with him. Can you just tell me where that is? I insisted. It is in the new neighborhoods, just behind the Gare d'Austerlitz. Who wants to travel far a competition goes the Foreign Ministry. But the Quai d'Orsay is not always a loading dock and the narrator finds himself in an obscure service, the "Office of countries-creating Section Eastern Europe and Siberia" ...