His two principal military subordinates, Vinoy and Ducrot, are excellent Generals of Division, but nothing more.

As for his civilian colleagues, they are one and all hardly more practical than Professor Fawcett.

Each has some crotchet of his own, each likes to dogmatize and to speechify, and each considers the others to be idiots, and has a small following of his own, which regards him as a species of divinity.
They are philosophers, orators, and legists, but they are neither practical men nor statesmen.

I understand that General Trochu says, that the most sensible among them is Rochefort.
We want to know what has become of Sergeant Truffet.

As the Prussians are continually dinning it into Europe that the French fire on their flags of truce, the following facts, for the truth of which I can vouch, may, perhaps, account for it; if, indeed, it has ever occurred.