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...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...
...found it badly crushed, but repaired it expertly and handed it back to Bader. He gratefully strapped it on-and within days escaped. One night Bader simply knotted some bedsheets and climbed out of the hospital where he was recuperating. A waiting guide led him off, saying: "C'est bon. C'est magnifique!" But before he could move on to England he was betrayed to the Nazis by a French girl...
...Khartoum in 1885, Queen Victoria "had difficulty in speaking." "How shall I ... express what I feel? . . . grief inexpressible!" she wrote the hero's sister. "Indeed, it has made me ill! My heart bleeds. . ." At the time-and for decades afterwards-Poet Arthur Rimbaud's brusquer comment, "Gordon est un idiot," represented the opinion of none but Poet Arthur Rimbaud...
...French or English; he had not yet learned Portuguese. "Finally," says Jones, "a padre shouldered his way through the crowd and asked me if I spoke Latin. I went into an effort of total recall, back to Caesar studied in 1933, finally came stumbling out with 'Quid est via ad domum publicum panamericanae?' In all honesty, I must admit his reply in Latin meant nothing to me, but he had me at the hotel in ten minutes...
...ranks grew thinner and thinner, only one command was heard: 'Close in! Close in! Close in to the center! Close in! Close in!' " It was then that France's General Bosquet, watching in horror from the heights above, let fall his famed comment: "C'est magnifique, mats ce n'est pas la guerre" (It is magnificent...