Crossword-Solution: CAPORAL 7 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Madame, Je suis pénétré de la douleur la plus vive, et réduit en même temps au désespoir par ce retour imprévù du Caporal qui rend notre entrevûe de ce soir la chose du monde la plus impossible.

For there's the cafe open wide, And there they set me up; And there I smoke my _caporal_ Above my cider cup; And play _manille_ a while before I hurry home to sup.

The consul was always convinced that through this keyhole opening, by means of a key, the humblest caporal wound up his file, the Hauptmann controlled his lieutenants and non-commissioned officers, and even the general himself, wearing the same cap, was subject through his cap to a higher moving power.

Gaston whispered gloomily behind my chair: “Mon petit caporal”--he called me that because of a fancied likeness to the young Napoleon--“dites donc.

That prophetic phrase, 'The eagle, with the national colours, will fly from church steeple to church steeple, till it settles on the towers of Notre Dame,' was happy in the extreme." These words certainly produced an immense effect on the French soldiery, who everywhere shouted, "Vive l'Empereur!" "Vive le petit Caporal!" "We will die for our old comrade!" with the most genuine enthusiasm.