It is to be hoped that we all have some friend […] whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions.

17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.

Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.

A spring-loaded reducing valve, controllable from the cab, admitted h.p. steam to both h.p. and l.p. cylinders whenever necessary, as, for example, on starting; ….