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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
French writers on war and peace
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Alfred de Vigny: Admiration for military commander turns us into slaves and madmen
Alfred de Vigny: The army is a machine wound up to kill
Alfred de Vigny: It is war that is wrong, not we
Alfred de Vigny: War is condemned of God and even of man who holds it in secret horror
Alfred de Vigny: When armies and war exist no more
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