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Updated: June 18, 2025
In 1819, a battalion commanded by royalist officers, young men just out of the Maison Rouge, passed through Issoudun on its way to go into garrison at Bourges. Not knowing what to do with themselves in so constitutional a place as Issoudun, these young gentlemen went to while away the time at the cafe Militaire. In every provincial town there is a military cafe.
He poured out and swallowed a last cup of tea, paid his bill and rose, displaying as he turned about a pink and white beardless countenance, that might have belonged to a boy of fifteen suddenly grown to a man during an attack of measles. On his breast was the Medaille Militaire, and the Croix de Guerre, with three palms. This mere infant must have jumped from his school to an aeroplane.
They were prompt to detect his attempts to modify the text of French operettas so that these, while delighting the lovers of light music, need not at the same time excite a military spirit or convey the least allusion of an impertinent or contemptuous kind towards the Central Powers. Thus the couplets "Dans le service de l'Autriche Le militaire n'est pas riche" were changed to
In that fateful moment, when he heard the howling of the mob outside the gates of the Ecole Militaire, the realization flashed upon Herzl that anti-Semitism was deep-rooted in the heart of the people so deep, indeed, that it was impossible to hope for its disappearance within a measurable period of time.
"Le militaire n'est pas riche, Chacun salt ça." But the militaire must live. Othello's occupation being gone, the artillery officers had no alternative but to do what Othello would have done had he been a Spaniard conspire.
"Well, I can make no promise," said DeLisle, speaking now more in the tone of an officer with a subordinate, yet showing that he was not vexed. "But I should like you to go away happy, Corporal. I'll look into the affair of your friend, and after that we shall see. Good-night." Again the salute was exchanged, and the colonel was gone, turning in at the garden gate of the Cercle Militaire.
In so far as Drew and I were concerned, these were matters for the future. It was enough for us at the moment that our applications had been approved, our papers signed, and that to-morrow we were leaving for the École d'Aviation Militaire to begin our training.
Here she gave a concert as her introduction, playing the piano herself, and making the programme entirely of her own compositions. On this occasion were given a concert-overture, a string quartette, Psalm 118 for voices and orchestra, and two symphonies, the "Militaire" and the B minor.
I have forgotten the culprit's name, but it will be found, with particulars of his case, in the Paris journals of the siege days. There was, moreover, the Hardt affair, which resulted in the prisoner, a former lieutenant in the Prussian army, being convicted of espionage and shot in the courtyard of the Ecole Militaire.
It was melancholy to hear the report of his career when it was read by his counsel, long years of active service, many wounds, often mentioned for brave conduct under fire, having the "Medaille Militaire" the grand cordon of the Legion d'Honneur, the baton de Marechal de France, all the honours his country could give him to end so miserably, judged not only by the court but by the country, as a traitor, false to his trust, when his country was in the death-throes of defeat and humiliation.
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