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Updated: May 17, 2025
The son bore the nickname of ``Plon-Plon, probably with some reference to his reputation for cowardice; the father had won the appellation of ``Le Roi Loustic, and, indeed, had the credit of introducing into the French language the word ``loustic, derived from the fact that, during his short reign at Cassel, King J<e'>rome was wont, after the nightly orgies at his palace, to dismiss his courtiers with the words: ``Morgen wieder loustic, Messieurs.
I have had men among my Zephyrs and they were the wildest insubordinates too that would have ruled the world! I have had more wit, more address, more genius, more devotion, in some headlong scamp of a loustic than all the courts and cabinets would furnish. Such lives, such lives, too, morbleu!"
He had never before been called on to exert either thought or action; the necessity for both called many latent qualities in him into play. The same nature, which had made him wish to be killed over the Grand Military course, rather than live to lose the race, made him now bear privation as calmly, and risk death as recklessly, as the heartiest and most fiery loustic of the African regiments.
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