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The first "unknown" corpse exhumed at Verdun turned out to be Senegalese, so he was reburied and replaced by a white body.
—From a review by Neal Ascherson of Jean-Yves Le Naour's book The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War, translated by Penny Allen, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2006
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In Paris, what used to be called middle age is disappearing. You stay young a long time, then go gaga.
–Alfred Capus
A Paris, ce qu'on appelait autrefois l'âge mur tend a disparaître. On reste très jeune très longtemps, puis on devient gâteux.
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