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Название: English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters

Автор: O'Rell Max

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Жанр: Зарубежная классика

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      If my memory serves me, it was one of our wittiest vaudevillists who once laid a wager that he would get an encore, at one of our popular theaters on the Boulevard, for the following patriotic quatrain:

      "La lâcheté ne vaut pas la vaillance,

      Mille revers ne font pas un succès;

      

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If my memory serves me, it was one of our wittiest vaudevillists who once laid a wager that he would get an encore, at one of our popular theaters on the Boulevard, for the following patriotic quatrain:

"La lâcheté ne vaut pas la vaillance,Mille revers ne font pas un succès;La France, amis, sera toujours la France,Les Français seront toujours les Français."

He won the bet.

The London badauds are at present nightly applauding, at the Empire Theater, a patriotic song which begins by the following words:

"What though the powers the world doth holdWere all against us met,We have the might they felt of old,And England's England yet."

Is it not strange that music-hall jingoism and chauvinisme should not only be expressed in the same manner, but by the very same words?

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