Word: crillon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry Adams tells in an entertaining way, with the aid of new documents from the French Archives, the story of the adventurer who was called in this country "Count Edward de Crillon...
...which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory had been gained: 'Hang yourself, brave Crillon! we fought at Arques, and you of all men were not there...