Word: mon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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]." "Alors," said De Gaulle, "bonjour, monsieur le gorille...
...summer of 1966. I am sixteen. I am living in the house-i.e., stockade-of the Chief of Staff of the Royal Laotian Army and Air Force. I am eating breakfast with mon general, who is rarely at home in Vientiane. "He is with the army, cherie." In my sweetest voice [You can talk to me, I'm just a dumb girl . . . .], in my best high school French, I ask, "Please, mon general, tell me, how goes la guerre...
...Mon general, a very fat and jolly man, grins at me toothlessly. "Mais, cherie, quelle guerre?" I learn later that the general does indeed spend a lot of time with the army, his army-guarding his holdings in Northern Thailand, supervising opium and gold smuggling by the Air Force and the army...
...learn that these holdings in Thailand are for the day when the war ends and "mon general" must flee the country-the day when, as the peasants put it, Prince Souphanouvong, commander of the Pathet Lao, beats out his older but less educated half-brother, Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, in this family quarrel...
...laughing at America's pretensions of high moral purpose. Doubtles they would as readily look to North Vietnam or to China as patrons if it were not too late, if they were not sure of being dispossessed by a nationalist communist regime. Ho Chi Minh might have found "mon general's" five Mercedes a trifle excessive...