l'enemi

Updated: June 20, 2025

What were all those thousands of little ant-like things crawling forward over the slopes? Thousands and scores of thousands of men, and horses and guns! "Les Anglais? Toujours les Anglais?" An English officer laughed, in a queer way, without any mirth in his eyes. "Les Allemands, mon vieux. Messieurs les Boches!" "L'enemi? Non pas possible!"

Philip Gibbs - The Soul of the War

Italy and France are making violent endeavours to escape their doom, by restricting the liberties of the official representatives of their legally established Church, because they instinctively feel that their dogmatics mean death to the peoples who live by them. Hence, the cry, le cléricalisme, voila l'enemi! in France, and the libera chiesa in libero stato! in Italy.

W. R. Washington (William Robert Washington) Sullivan - Morality as a Religion: An exposition of some first principles

In his speech to the Corps Legislatif, on the 1st of January 1814, he made use of the following words at the close of an oration, composed of the same unmeaning phrases, strung together in fifty different shapes. "Je suis de ces homines qu'on tue, mais qu'on ne dishonore pas. Dans trois mois nous aurons la paix, ou l'enemi sera chasse de notre territoire ou, je serai mort."

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.