France: Her People and Her Spirit (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Jerrold, Laurence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334451621 ISBN 13: 9781334451621

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from France: Her People and Her Spirit

The passion of revenge for 1870 lay, except in a few, dormant. The few never would have had the strength to send the nation to war. But the fire was there, latent, but a fire. The spark set it ablaze, and France flamed up more than even she herself knew she would. After all, one was wrong; the revanche still was a cry to call the French to arms. But one was right, too; the spark did it. If France wanted revenge, she must thank Germany. France herself would never have given herself the chance. Germany, F R A N C E with a cynicism that was almost ingenuous, gave her the chance.

She took it; she was instantly changed. She was the real France again. She was no longer self-con scious, petty, frivolous, divided, ironical, cynical; she was the real France, one nation with one heart, the most one-hearted, deeply united nation in the world, the real France that true Observers had always seen beneath the surface. She was one huge battalion of soldiers fighting on fields, in trenches, in forts; peas ants, dukes, millionaires, politicians, priests, bishops, anarchists, all of one mind. War is horrible. A whole people standing against the invader is beautiful.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1334451621
• ISBN 13: 9781334451621
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
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