Word: hussar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malraux cannot be accused of that crime of omission. On one occasion, he relates, Brigitte Bardot arrived at an Elysee Palace reception in a hussar-style pajama suit. De Gaulle murmured to Malraux, "What luck, a soldier!" Then to Bardot he said, "What good fortune, madame. You are in uniform and I am in civilian clothes!" Another tale recounts the time the nearsighted general plunged into a crowd without his glasses. "Bonjour, monsieur le curé," he said to one man, apparently taking him for a priest. "But, mon général, I'm your gorille [bodyguard...