The Undying Spirit of France Les Traits Eternels De La France
The Undying Spirit of France Les Traits Eternels De La France
Maurice Barrs
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Here at least is a sample, a sample of the wine which for two years has been fermenting on our hills, of the wheat of our furrows and of the blood of our battles. But in all this is there, after all, any- thing unheard-of or unexpected? It is fruit produced by France, similar to that which this ancient nation has yielded so many times throughout the centuries of her existence; it is the wine, the wheat, the blood of all our epics. We may recognize in our past a prototype of each one of the qual...ities and exploits which we have just observed. The 36 THE UNDYING SPIRIT OF FRANCE heroic poems (Chansons de Geste), the Crusades, all the early years of France, abound with innumerable deeds achieved by our knights and by the Sancta Plebs Dei which, in anticipation, usher in the feats inscribed in our army reports in 1916. The mortal vow of the young Saint- Cyriens why that is a typical episode of our Chansons de Geste. There is no theme which they develop with greater freshness and spirit than the warlike alacrity, purity and willing obedience of the young heroes, the Aymerillots, the Rolands, Guy de Bourgognes in their early adolescence.
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