frontier-garrison

Updated: May 29, 2025

The War of the Polish Succession presently sank into a mere armistice, and until 1736 we dimly perceive Vauvenargues sharing the idle and boring life of the officer who, too poor to retire to Paris, vegetates in some deplorable frontier-garrison of Burgundy or Franche Comté.

Edmund Gosse - Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France