Oh that's grand. Very Jacques. There is a man who knew bravery and courage when he saw it. Worth a thousand of the other Jack.
Prison walls hold me but they will fade in the changes of war and peace and I shall be free - those which hold you will never escape. Indeed. And how wonderful that Jacques did live on to enjoy peace and freedom and the incomparable gift of friendship.
Florid? I thought Jacques was being quite restrained by his normal standards!
in my minds eye Bergeret has affection for Archie before ever meeting him through what hw hadbeen told and what he observes Yes, I've always thought of Jacques and Archie as being kindred spirits in some respects. They both know that it means to loose their freedom, though of course Jacques experience of captivity was incomparable to Archie's.
yes = Jacques experiences were rather better = though he was also of course impriosned by his own country in the Temple in Paris - that probably was a fairly gut wrenching experience not knowing if he would be charged with something etc
I really love the last line and the multiple meaning of it, the obvious one being Simpson can't escape from Hell, but he also can't escape his own vile nature.
Wow, very elegantly written! I could really hear this character in my head. I can also see Jack scratching his head at all the "damn Frog language". Heh! It's so much fun to confound him...
Confounding Jack is good I Agree = and his namesake JAcques ( though as Anteros said they have nothing else in common this guy being worth 1000 Simpsons ) is pleased to be able to rub it in.
The real JAcques Bergeret wrote someitmes in french and sometimes in English to his friend EP - and his style was nothing if not elegant - mine is a pale imitation .Fasicinating how eloquent they all were because most of them had had a truncated education, Pellew and Bergeret included both being at sea at 13.Somehow they picked it up
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Prison walls hold me but they will fade in the changes of war and peace and I shall be free - those which hold you will never escape.
Indeed. And how wonderful that Jacques did live on to enjoy peace and freedom and the incomparable gift of friendship.
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This is florid = but as you say it is Jacques
in my minds eye Bergeret has affection for Archie before ever meeting him through what hw hadbeen told and what he observes
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in my minds eye Bergeret has affection for Archie before ever meeting him through what hw hadbeen told and what he observes
Yes, I've always thought of Jacques and Archie as being kindred spirits in some respects. They both know that it means to loose their freedom, though of course Jacques experience of captivity was incomparable to Archie's.
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also inspired by a decscription of one of historical Indy boys rather later as the "Beau ideal " of a naval captain
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the extent to which SImpsons letter gives away, as Jaques realises, how the hell he is in is of his own making - or at the least of his own collusion
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Confounding Jack is good I Agree = and his namesake JAcques ( though as Anteros said they have nothing else in common this guy being worth 1000 Simpsons ) is pleased to be able to rub it in.
The real JAcques Bergeret wrote someitmes in french and sometimes in English to his friend EP - and his style was nothing if not elegant - mine is a pale imitation .Fasicinating how eloquent they all were because most of them had had a truncated education, Pellew and Bergeret included both being at sea at 13.Somehow they picked it up
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