The Bois de Boulogne was filled with herds of cattle.

Near heaps of dry alfalfa steers and sheep were grouped in the green meadows.

Protection against famine was uppermost in the minds of a people still remembering the suffering of 1870.

Every night, the street lighting was less and less.
The sky, on the other hand, was streaked incessantly by the shafts from the searchlights.

Fear of aerial invasion was increasing the public uneasiness.