Villars : Claude-Louis-Hector, duc de Villars (1653-1734), marshal of France, the last great general of Louis XIV, his most successful commander in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). Villars was defeated by Marlborough (q.v.) & Eugene of Savoy at Malplaquet (1709), but thereafter he successfully defended the French frontier.
... critical civilian in his chair Win famous victories with wordy carnage, Guide his strategic finger o'er a map, Cry "Eugene's fault! Here Marlborough was to blame; And look, a child might see it, Villars' plain error That lost him Malplaquet!" I think you are Just such a pen-and-paper strategist. A wooer! BASIL Death! I will have pity on you, Antonio. You shall see my great example And ...
... —Curie, Marie. CEuvres de Marie Sklodowska-Curie. ac. Pol. Sci. Varsovie: 1954. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. —Curie, Pierre. CEuvres de Pierre Curie. Gauthier Villars, 1908 —Giroud, Frangoise. Marie Curie: A Life. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986. —Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. ...
... Academy of Sciences in Paris. The tragedy — Marie continues alone On '9th April '906 Pierre had lunch with his colleagues and then planned to go to the printing house on Rue Gauthier-Villars. It was a rainy day and he found the door closed because of a strike. [... ] Pierre wanted to cross the pavement and reach the other sidewalk. With the sudden movement of an absent-minded man ...
... The critical civilian in his chair Win famous victories with wordy carnage, Guide his strategic finger o'er a map, Cry "Eugene's fault! here Marlboro' was to blame, And look, a child might see it, Villars' plain error That lost him Malplaquet!" I think you are Just such a pen-and-paper strategist. A wooer! Basil: Death, I will have pity on you, Antonio. You shall see my great example And learn ...
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