[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"..."Toujours l'audace!" proclaims a French military slogan..."

It is a Napoleonic slogan, to be precise.

"L'audace; encore l'audace; et toujours l'audace."

Napoleon was, of course, the proto-Hitler in European history. Hitler is unthinkable without Napoleon. However Barone is confindent that nobody in America can connect the dots.

The dots; again, the dots; connect the dots.....

[LoisHunt]

Napoleon was Hitler? Think how much better off under the Napoleonic Code the Russians would have been than living as slaves who didn't own their own hair under their own nobles. If Napoleon had conquered Russia, the Russians would have been free almost 200 years earlier than they were.

[Gordian Blade]

Unlike Hitler, Napoleon was a true military genius and worth studying if only for that. PS - Remember in the movie Patton when George C. Scott quotes that line? It was a great scene.

[financeprof]

Actually, Georges Jaques Danton (a French revolutionary leader) said it. The exact quote is: "Il nous faus de l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace." Roughly, we must be audacious, still more audacious, always audacious.

[Publius6961]

The dots; again, the dots; connect the dots.....
Barone is confindent that nobody in America can connect the dots.

It is certainly hoped that should any American accidentally stumble into this obscure "wisdom", that they have the wisdom and experience to give due attention to the context of the difference in time and level of world conditions in terms of travel, technology, communications.
Context is the great illuminator.