non-frenchman

Updated: May 4, 2025

It was enough for someone to make some utterly unfounded accusation, express some foolish, chance suspicion, for the non-Frenchman to be maltreated as a "spy." Both in Metz and in Paris, in the month of August, people who were taken for "Prussians" were hanged or dismembered.

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Recollections of My Childhood and Youth