A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.