Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: What is meant by victories? Carnage and pillage everywhere.

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: Théophile Gautier, lover of peace ==== Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveBossuet He calls to mind Pliny the Younger glorifying his Trajan who traveled over the world less by his footsteps than by his victories: “And what does this mean, think […]