Word: poilu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...tribute to the military virtues of the Commonwealth armies. And there are messages from President Gaston Doumergue, onetime Premier Georges Clemenceau and many another French notable, as well as some poems by the Countess Mathieu de Noailles. The book ends with a drawing by Jean Louis Forain depicting a poilu watching the eastern frontier of France, which is held to emphasize the military and political value of British friendship to the French...
...salon. When his good-fellowship embroils him in a Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited dog, who wags his tail at the audience, his natural grace left uncropped by the playwright...
...hose", the war, and faith in God, in man, and the "idea". The war is a far cry, but what else could effect half so nicely a marriage in the sight of heaven alone, and a reunion four years later with a blinded, but indomitable husband in Poilu blue...
From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...