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  • Poilu or Grognard?

    Poilu or Grognard?

    Posted on January 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Poilu (pronounced /pwaly/ in French) is a warmly informal term for a French World War I infantryman, meaning, literally, hairy one. The term came into popular usage in France during the era of Napoleon Bonaparte and his massive citizen armies, though the term grognard (grumbler)...

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  • The idea was quite simple to begin with

    The idea was quite simple to begin with

    Posted on September 20, 2008 | No Comments
    So i thought i would write a tv script – because everything i saw on TV was pretty dire and I had all these ideas bouncing around in my head. Turns out the first few attempts were nothing but bad recycled versions of existing ideas....

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