The night at the Bourbon Palace, Briand hastily organized a meeting.
At this time, the news that Shire had recaptured Metz and achieved a major victory at the Meuse River had spread throughout the streets of Paris.
Even though it was a time of wartime rationing and streetlights were no longer lit, people were too excited to sleep.
They flooded the streets, lighting torches or gathering around bonfires to praise Shire's achievements, thanking him for bringing France an unprecedented victory, and looking forward to the end of the war.
In the eyes of Parisian citizens, as long as the French Army could reach the pre-war border line, it could be called "territorial recovery."
But if Lorraine and Alsace could be recovered, it would be even better, as it would cleanse the shame of the Franco-German War and reclaim the rich mineral resources of those two regions.
Now, the war is almost over, right?
