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Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass, but it is a fragment of history. In me you see one of the last of those wonderful men, the men who were veterans when they were yet boys, who learned to use a sword earlier than a razor, and who during a hundred battles had never once let the enemy see the colour of their knapsacks. For twenty years we were teaching Europe how to fight, and even when they had learned their lesson it was only the thermometer, and never the bayonet, which could break the Grand Army down. Berlin, Naples, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Moscow - we stabled our horses in them all. Yes, my friends, I say again that you do well to send your children to me with flowers, for these ears have heard the trumpet calls of France, and these eyes have seen her standards in lands where they may never be seen again
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Table of contents
- 1. HOW THE BRIGADIER CAME TO THE CASTLE OF GLOOM
- 2. HOW THE BRIGADIER SLEW THE BROTHERS OF AJACCIO
- 3. HOW THE BRIGADIER HELD THE KING
- 4. HOW THE KING HELD THE BRIGADIER
- 5. HOW THE BRIGADIER TOOK THE FIELD AGAINST THE MARSHAL MILLEFLEURS
- 6. HOW THE BRIGADIER PLAYED FOR A KINGDOM
- 7. HOW THE BRIGADIER WON HIS MEDAL
- 8. HOW THE BRIGADIER WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
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