It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.
We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.