Word: vives
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...quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
...that the meeting had represented "the marked will of the French Government to engage itself ever more constantly on a path of durable and fruitful European collaboration." As the Marshal stepped down from his car in the heavily guarded Vichy station, he was greeted by a solitary cry of "Vive Pétain...
...defeated French people: "Good night, then: sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. . . . Vive la France! Long live also the forward march of the common people in all the lands towards their just and true inheritance, and toward the broader and fuller...
...stage any kind of demonstration against the German occupation. One demonstration which the Germans did not understand was put on by 1,000 students marching up the Champs Elysées behind leaders carrying two 14-foot bamboo poles. Every time the leaders raised the poles the students cried "Vive!" The French word for pole is gaule. Two poles is deux gaudes, or De Gaulle...
...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...