 Complete the following phrase:  Both Marc and Louis Bloch volunteered for service in the French Army. Although the Dreyfus Affair had soured Blochs views of the French Army, he later wrote that his criticisms were only of the officers; he had respect only for the men. Bloch was one of over 800 ÉNS students who enlisted; 239 were to be killed in action. On 2 August 1914 he was assigned to the 272nd Reserve Regiment. Within eight days he was stationed on the Belgian border where he fought in the Battle of the Meuse later that month. His regiment took part in the general retreat on the 25th, and the following day they were in Barricourt, in the Argonne. The march westward continued towards the River Marnewith a temporary recuperative halt in Termeswhich they reached in early September. During the 