Word: metzing
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...mounted the rostrum, faced a room filled with Liberation Committee members, Allied diplomatic observers, and Assembly delegates, many of whom had come directly from Occupied France. Looking down, De Gaulle saw General Henri Honore Giraud. And perhaps in his mind's eye he could see France too-Strasbourg, Metz, Lyon, Marseilles, Paris. Said he, grimly and pointedly...
...Rabbi Solomon Metz, Bromley read a series of borderline gags. One involved two London charwomen discussing the inconveniences of a blackout. Said...
...future in liberated Metz, Very cordially yours, H. Giraud
When Bazaine rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along...
WILLIAM J. METZ, D.O. Franklin...