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The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A French correspondent's view of the war in America. (search)
hich eclipses all others is the French nationality, personified, of course, in the Zouave. Everything at New York is in the Zouave style — fashions, handbills, theatrical spectacles. More Zouaves (the uniform of the Imperial Guard) are met in the streets of New York than in the streets of Paris.--Whole companies are really composed of Frenchmen, who have served less or more, and who seem to look down upon all other soldiers — Americans, English, Germans, &c.--from the top of the tower of Solferino or the Malakoff. I should be sorry to pass a rash judgment upon brave compatriots, who appear to me to be very careless, very gay, very sociable; but I cannot help reflecting upon what series of adventures have been able to bring these Parisians from the Place Manbert to the shores of the Potomac, there to risk their lives for the greater glory of President Lincoln, at the rate of eleven dollars per month. Seriously, I do not believe that the eleven dollars go for everything. At first,