Gloire

The great disturbances of world peace that marked the years 1830, 1854, and 1870 were attributable to an incessant pursuit of new "gloire," to which all other aims were subordinate. ❋ Various (N/A)

Parallel with this French striving for new "gloire" was England's endeavor to keep the Continent in a feverish condition; this was the policy of Lord Palmerston, and with it was combined a hysterical fear of attack on the part of possible enemies that were thought to exist in Russia, and especially in ❋ Various (N/A)

France recuperated most rapidly; by the Treaties of Paris there had been recovered from it only part of the abundant harvest which it had gathered in consequence of the victories and the coercive policy of Napoleon; the national soil was still fertile and the national consciousness was still imbued with the "gloire" which the Corsican General, with the help of his own and of foreign troops, had won for the French name. ❋ Various (N/A)

One may, however, run across a certain feeling toward war, quite local and unconscious, yet very different from the French love of "gloire" and the English keenness for war as a sort of superior fox-hunting or football. ❋ Arthur Ruhl (1905)

He looked upon "gloire" and "vertu" as the two great motive forces of a sane and beneficent life. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

The French make a national fetish of their notion of 'gloire' ❋ Unknown (2010)

The French make a national fetish of their notion of "gloire". ❋ Unknown (2010)

They drone on about "gloire" only because they dread humiliation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"gloire" took the central place, and we may form an intelligent conception of the meaning he stamped upon the word, by repeating some of his axioms. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

"gloire," its historic culture, at the heart of which is the French language. ❋ By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN (2010)

Un Milton sans gloire, ignoré, peut dormir dans ce cimetière ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

Contrary to French gloire (an ever-present anxiety for Shaftesbury), this good-humoured exchange observes a fundamental truth about ethical judgement: "we can have no tolerable notion of goodness, without being tolerably good." ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had the 18k Everose gold model with the rayon flamm de la gloire Arabic numerals on a black leather band with a gold clasp. ❋ Rhonda Pollero (2009)

Paramount among these is that the French nation's greatest psychological need in the wake of the ignominious debacle was to regain a sense of self-respect – the very honneur and gloire that de Gaulle invoked in his broadcasts from London – and that the French cultural heritage was all there was to provide it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It will be illuminating to discover in due course the extent to which Blair and Brown circumscribed military initiative in both Basra and Helmand in search of la gloire (the poseur Blair) and narrow-minded parsimony (the hypocrite Brown). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pierre Branda, an economist and author, has written several books and articles on Napoleon: Le prix de la gloire: Napoleon et l'argent (The Price of Glory: Napoleon and Money); "Les finances et le budget de la France napoléonienne" (Finance and the French Napoleonic Budget); and "Le testament de Napoléon: une affaire d'argent avant tout" (The Testament of Napoleon: Above All, a Money Affair). ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The page slew the boar, The peer had the gloire.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

[She is] [such a] Gloire. ❋ G.9 (2017)

(driving) Dude I: Dude, we scored some killer dope. Dude II: Yeah, man... this shit is dank-a-licious. Dude I: Shit! We're [getting pulled over]. Hurry up, and eat the bud, man!! [Pour la gloire]. Dude II: POUR LA GLOOOOOOIRE!! ([chokes], dies) ❋ Keef Moon (2009)