Word: menceau
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Such stuff is mere badinage?yet here and there among Martet's anecdotes for cooks is a bit of Clémenceau thought as hard and fundamental as anything in Grandeur et Misere...
Grandeur. In his own book the Tiger appears to mean by grandeur that which he bestowed on Marshal Foch, and for which the Marshal, in Clémenceau's opinion, displayed base, hypocritical and pusillanimous ingratitude...
...have to your credit the Marne, the Yser, Doullens and, of a surety, other battles beside," writes Clémenceau among his last words to the already dead Foch. "I forgave you a flagrant disobedience, which, under anyone but me, would have brought your military career to an end. I saved you from Parliament in the bad business of the Chemin des Dames, which has not yet been cleared...
...years' silence, to wait till you had disappared from the scene [into the tomb] and then have me pelted out of your window with roadside pebbles [the book Le Memorial de Foch, published by Journalist Raymond Recouly and quoting his words in a long attack on Clémenceau for having "lost the peace"] ?I tell you frankly [this] does not redound to your glory...
...defense of Clémenceau which follows is heavily documented, technical, frankly written by Clémenceau for Clémenceau?a deed which thousands of authors pretend to do ("I write first of all to please myself") but which not one in a thousand does...