Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 3: A Monthly Review; January-June, 1878
The French have never been good at fighting a losing game. Reverses with us and with our cousins, the Americans, serve to stimu late to increased exertion, to give us renewed energy; but with the Latin races it is {otherwise: misfortune engenders despair; there is a want of self-reliance in their disposition that tends to convert early failure in any undertaking into demoralisation, and with all people, when demoralisation has once taken hold either of individuals, or of communities, or of armies, it is likely to degenerate quickly into cowardice. The elan on which the French pride themselves so much is the offspring of success, and success only. 'first blood has even with us been always regarded as an omen of good fortune, but to a French army it is a preface essential to victory.
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