"Good impression; clear eyes which look you in the face, neat and precise thoughts, no bluff in his speech, good sense…"

"Meteor-like, his orbit was swift and brilliant; also like a meteor, he was to disappear without trace. In the rapidit…"

"Here is a chief in the Latin sense of the word, that is to say une tête ... confident hope rings a carillon of bells …"

"[Nivelle was] not only a rash commander, he was representative of the national temperament. This is the reason that h…"

"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

"The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results i…"

"I must inform your excellencies how the Duke of Burgundy came with all pomp for his coronation as king of the kingdom…"

"Iesu Christi, quem Chrotchildis praedicat esse filium Dei vivi, qui dare auxilium laborantibus victuriamque in te spe…"

"He was, in the nineteenth century, a superb type of the valiant knight, devoted heart and soul to the defence of the …"

"The constable, Raoul de Nesle, proposed a manœuvre by which the Flemings would have been turned, and cut off from Cou…"