“Not caring for their lives, is it? Why, what in the world should we care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time? Alas, dear God! You're right all the same, they don't care! I can remember them in '70, in those wretched wars, they've no fear of death left in them(...)they're not men anymore, they're lions.” In Search Of Lost TimeFranco Prussian WarFrance At WarThird RepublicFrench War Author:Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)