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Outside Notre Dame recently, a dignified, grey-haired civil engineer undertook to explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
...stationery of the Harvard Crimson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to his mother: "I know what pain I must have caused you and you know I wouldn't do it if I really could have helped it-mais tu sais, me voilà! That's all that could be said. I know my mind, have known it for a long time, and know that I would never think otherwise. Result: I am the happiest man just now in the world; likewise the luckiest. And for you, dear Mummy, you know that nothing can ever change what we have always...
...many of Mâcon's townspeople, she evidently did. In the public squares, angry crowds cried: "Voilà l'empoison-neuse!" One Paris paper called the case "Atropine and Old Lace" (atropine had been found in the viscera of one victim). But Detective Bascou, finally convinced that Nurse Demussy's ex-husband had lied about her, changed his tack. The detective decided that the solution must be a medical one, and began to study the hospital's post-operative treatment of gynecological patients...
Several observers, M. Le Gall among them, have seen schools of fish turn toward the ASDIC-emitting vessel. Why they do it, he does not know, or even whether they do it regularly. He intends to find out. But if fish do-voilà! In future, schools of herring may be seduced by ASDIC right into kippering plants...
Said Sister Elizabeth: "Close the windows and sit down. We will repeat, Void la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crudfix.-This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...