Magnifique … Guerre

“Cʹest magnifique, mais ce nʹest pas la guerre.” Admirable, but not according to rule. The comment of Marshal Canrobert on the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.

“It is because the clergy, as a class, are animated by a high ideal … that they, as a class, are incomparably better than they need be … Cʹest magnifique, mais ce nʹest pas la guerre.”—Nineteenth Century, April, 1866.