Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.

Casualties numbered in the 30s

After the death of Duke Hsiao, kings Hui-wen, Wu, and Chao-hsiang carried on the undertaking and, following the plans he had laid, seized Han-chung in the south and Pa and Shu in the west, acquired rich land in the east and strategic areas in the north.

Many early-1970s leftist evocations of sexual violence instead developed claims made by left-wing critics of France's violent campaign to crush the Algerian revolution, who had warned that the security forces' systematic use of torture and extreme violence, notably rape, would “gangrenize” the French.