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Updated: June 22, 2025
I can quote an example of an aristocrat who, in spite of his splendid chateau in the country, was mobilized as a simple soldat. At the barracks this gentleman found that his corporal was a labourer in the village where the old chateau stands. In order to amuse himself the corporal made M. le Chatelain do all the dirtiest jobs, such as sweeping the rooms, cleaning the staircases and the lavatories.
I cannot be held responsible, remember!" And with a smile, he turned and entered the house. Hardly realising my good fortune, I nearly hugged my new friend, the Lieutenant. "Monsieur," I said, saluting, "I am un Belge soldat pro tem." Laughingly he told me to get my kit ready, and from a soldier who could speak English I borrowed a water-bottle and two blankets.
Real Soldat, you understand. And his dress is very brave. I have seen his dress. It shines! What jewels! Don't go there, Mem Nina. Tuan said not; but the old Mem is gone. Tuan will be angry. Merciful Allah! what jewels that man has got!"
"Il est bon, il est gai, mon soldat," but he sometimes drank too much alcohol, and that was a bad habit. Perhaps now, since his comrade had stepped into a cellar hole Monday night while he was drunk, and had been drowned, her "Sharlie" would be warned and would do better. Marie was evidently a well brought up child. Her father, she said, had been a schoolmaster.
Out of this initial and purely personal devotion grew the great oeuvre, Mon Soldat, which has met with such a warm response in this country. Madame Berard's headquarters are in a villa in the Parc Monceau.
The "Russky soldat," whose boots had long since disappeared and whose feet were bound up in bags to protect them from the snow, felt almost certain that proper boots and clothes would follow from the War Minister's visit.
He fires his remarks like pistol shots at this man or that. Once to my horror he fixed me with his hard little eyes and demanded 'Sherlock Holmes, est ce qu'il est un soldat dans l'armee Anglaise? The whole table waited in an awful hush. 'Mais, mon general, I stammered, 'il est trop vieux pour service. There was general laughter, and I felt that I had scrambled out of an awkward place.
I recall, gentlemen, those fine lines which Victor Hugo applied to himself, as explaining the inspiration of his life: Fidèle au double sang qu'ont versé dans ma veine, Mon père vieux soldat, ma mère vendéenne. That double fidelity to ideas and aspirations, quite distinct, is our glory in Canada.
Broser Johann must not serve; ME shall pe Soldat. Karl is for nopoty necessary, and Karl shall pe Soldat. "'You is one honest man, Karl, sayt Papa, ant kiss me. Ant me was Soldat." "Zat was a terrible time, Nicolinka," continued Karl Ivanitch, "ze time of Napoleon. He vanted to conquer Germany, ant we protected our Vaterland to ze last trop of plot.
If you will give me the address where you are staying in Paris I will write to you as soon as I obtain the information. Do not be impatient, the archbishop himself may be in ignorance on the point; but I doubt not, that to oblige me, he will obtain the information from the right quarter. A week later, Ronald, on returning one day to Le Soldat Ecossais, found a note awaiting him.
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