Perhaps it's the conditions around us, but at times I am sure the heroic days of the First Republic have returned to France.

The spirit that animated Hoche and Marceau and Kleber and Bonaparte, before he became spoiled, seems to have descended upon the French.

And there were Murat, Lannes and Lefebvre, and Berthier and the others.

Think of that wonderful crowd of boys leading the republican armies to victories over all the kings! It seems to me the most marvelous thing in the history of war, since the Greeks turned back the Persians." Weber refilled his coffee cup, drank a portion of it, and said: "I have thought of it, Mr.Scott, I have thought of it more than once.
It may be that the Gallic fury has been aroused.

It has seemed so to me since the German armies were turned back from Paris.