Some were Mussulmans, sharpshooters from Algeria and Morocco.

In Lourdes, as they might be anywhere, they were interested only in the gifts which the people were showering upon them with patriotic affection.

They all surveyed with indifference the basilica inhabited by "the white lady," their only preoccupation being to beg for cigars and sweets.
Finding themselves regaled by the dominant race, they became greatly puffed up, daring everything like mischievous children.

What pleased them most was the fact that the ladies would take them by the hand.
Blessed war that permitted them to approach and touch these white women, perfumed and smiling as they appeared in their dreams of the paradise of the blest! "Lady.

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