Crossword-Solution: COQS 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The principle indicated in the well-known lines of Lafontaine— “Deux coqs vivaient en paix: une poule survint, Et voilà la guerre allumée!”— is generally held to be one of universal applicability.

Geese which had been plucked when alive, then whipped to death, and _marinées_ were set down in his bill of fare as foreign birds; and after a similar fashion turkeys were metamorphosed into _coqs de bruyères_, and were served at table buried under the strong-smelling herbs of Lorraine.