And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, August 7, 2023
Les braves militaires font la guerre et désirent la paix. Adolphe Thiers, L'histoire de la Révolution Française (1841)
Sharp looking bunch. Not as terrifying as the ones wearing the white kepis.
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing French military pogues. It reminds me of the ad:
ReplyDeleteWW2 French Army rifle for sale.
Never Fired.
Only dropped once.
In the 10 weeks of the Battle of France WWII France lost 100,000 men
DeleteThe frogs need Charles Martel to come back.
ReplyDeleteVive La Legion!
ReplyDelete"Very pretty General, but can they fight?" Donald Sutherland, as Vernon L. Pinkley, "The Dirty Dozen".
ReplyDeleteare they taking knives to a gun fight?
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