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Duke of Valentinois, Duke of Romagna, Duke of Urbino, Count of Diois, Duke of Camerino and Lord of Imola, Forlì, Sassoferrato, Fermo, Fano, Cesena and Pesaro
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This is a crazy footnote
soldiers had learned some French conversation from the language books produced by the army. Supposedly useful gambits were also pronidl in the daily lessons published by Stars and Stripes, such as the French for My wife doesn't understand me.' Mutual incomprehension and the clash of very different cultures affected Franco-American relations perhaps even more than the joy of liberation. A woman in a town southeast of Mortain described ther ecstasy, waving flags and singing the Marseillaise' when a column of the American 2nd Armored Division arrived. The French were amused * When Arletty, the great actress and star of Les enfants du Paradis, died in 1992, she received admiring obituaries. These tended to pass over her controversial love affair conducted largely in the Hôtel Ritz with a Luftwaffe officer (who subsequently became a West German diplomat and was eaten by a crocodile when swimming in the River Congo). But then letters to some newspapers revealed a lingering bitterness nearly fifty years later. It was not the fact of her sleeping with the enemy that had angered them, but the way she had eaten well in the Ritz while the rest of France was hungry. 450
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Sitting upright meme
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM