Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes… — Frederick Rolfe
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.
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