Fort de Vaux

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    “There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I loathe that I did love,
    In youth that I thought sweet;”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)