Word: qui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious Nationalist. Father Joseph was baptized François (Leclerc du Tremblay). At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek and Latin fluently, discussed "the deepest problems of metaphysics and religion" with a friend, aged twelve. When François's father died, the boy felt "a haunting sense of the vanity, the transience, the hopeless precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France...
...march their officers dinned into them, "the enemy is stronger." The mottoes of "the Greatest Army in Europe" became planquez-vous (hide) and sauve qui peut. In a fatal confusion of discipline with punishment, the officers tried to toughen them while they marched: 35, 40, 45 kilometers a night. The older men fell out. The stronger, to ease their regulation load of 70 pounds, tossed their equipment in the ditches. Trucks were nowhere to be seen...
...point out to your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil War; so did Whitman, after a fashion. Victor Hugo managed to live through the days of exile and the agony of the Franco-Prussian War: "Moi, qui me crus apôtre!" [I, who believed myself a zealot...
Vive le Général de Gaulle, ces officiers, ces soldats qui défendent la France dans le supréme honneur! Vive la France! Vive les bons Francais! Merci...
...French] Red Cross nurse . . . put down the bowl of broth she was ladling out to the refugees and . . . took my arm. . . . 'Madame,' she said, 'you are an American?' I said: 'Yes,' and she went on: 'Then you must tell me the truth: qui nous a trahi? Who has betrayed...