Douve

The first night we came to the Douve was a pretty calm one, comparatively speaking; yet one poor chap in the leading platoon, going through the farm courtyard I mentioned, got shot right through the forehead.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

But in "On the Motion and Immobility of Douve" Douve is a mythical feminine figure of Mr. Bonnefoy's creation, violence and death are transformed into images of a subtle and strange beauty.

The Pursuit of Presence Micah Mattix 2012

Private Austin with the 501st may have been located with the rest of his unit near Douve, where they were running short of ammunition, although they were able to hold off a battalion of German paratroopers from advancing on St. Marie-du-mont.

Archive 2007-05-01 Andrew 2007

In 1968, the Ohio University Press published On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, his first book in English translation.

When Night Forgets to Fall Simic, Charles 2007

Private Austin with the 501st may have been located with the rest of his unit near Douve, where they were running short of ammunition, although they were able to hold off a battalion of German paratroopers from advancing on St. Marie-du-mont.

D+ 1-3: Days 2-4 Andrew 2007

Right back at the Douve farm a mile away, the thundering crash of one of these shells would rattle all the windows and make one say, "Where did that one go?"

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

Beyond lay the rough and rugged road which led to the Douve trenches.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

Our first time in the Douve trenches was mainly uneventful, but we all decided it was not as pleasant as St. Yvon.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

Douve, but without success, though rewarded for their walk by a pretty view of the apse of the Abbey church, with its delicately-sculptured lancet windows, from the opposite side of the river.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

I now started my fresco act on the walls of the Douve farm.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather