I say that the French are bad people who, instead of bringing a people to whom we should contact to gain, maintain, by false accusations, feelings spirit of hatred which inevitably results from war. - General Percin. General Alexander Percin was chief of staff to Minister of War during the Dreyfus Affair . Former Polytechnique, brilliant soldier, Freemason ... It became known late in his life and after the war of 14-18, a convinced pacifist.
He also had a good pen and a lot of nerve. His books are prominently alongside those from any library in Barbusse anti-militarist and aniticléricale respectable.
The family Percin is rather sparse, I like to consider him to be a distant relative, which is not totally impossible ... (Notice to budding genealogists!)
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