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On the left bank of the Charles, or, more exactly, in Phillips Brooks House last night, the French club fought a tossup battle over Brooklyn and Beacon Street accents in a game effort to recapture "I'esprit gaulois" on no stronger fuel than ice water. (It was called punch.)

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Existentialist Erotics Find Outlets in Champagne and Chanel | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Apprehended in his Claverly Hall rooms by a posse of newspapermen, L. Esprit Gaulois, master of Cambridge illuminant, versed the opinion yesterday that "Gathering rosebuds while ye may should pay off come Valentine's Day."

Author: By Rubicon K. Twombly rd, | Title: No Holds Barred as Boudoir-Versed L. Esprit Gaulois Lays Down Ground Rules for St. Valentine Frolicking | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

and Gaulois have all gone into the making of those women," he declared, pursing his fingers in his familiar Gallic attitude. "He who says that Radcliffe girls are born, not made, knows not whereof he walls," Gaulois continued.

Author: By Rubicon K. Twombly rd, | Title: No Holds Barred as Boudoir-Versed L. Esprit Gaulois Lays Down Ground Rules for St. Valentine Frolicking | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Questions as to methods of approach, escape from public surveillance, and strategy for severing connections were waved aside as Gaulois' own gray-flannel ducks, Leo and Harvey, waddled in from the foyer. Harvey laid a pin-striped egg

Author: By Rubicon K. Twombly rd, | Title: No Holds Barred as Boudoir-Versed L. Esprit Gaulois Lays Down Ground Rules for St. Valentine Frolicking | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Who Was De Gaulle? If ever a Frenchman had the perfect name with which to make himself the lord of France, it is De Gaulle. Every French child started kindergarten history with picture lessons about nos ancêtres, Us Gaulois, early inhabitants of La Gaide. The sound is part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Symbol | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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