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migo, Y/w. Thanks for yours, good to know you are still ok -- "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace."

Napoleon, and later General George Patton made "Audacity, audacity, always audacity." a famous phrase encouraging bold courage in the face of great challenge.

Audacity is supposed to be a talent in great generals -- at least some of them. That's where the phrase comes from: "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" It's attributed to the Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht, to Georges Danton, (one of the big head-choppers of the French Revolution), and to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Audacity can be effective in warfare, because surprise assaults can break through a Maginot Line. But another word for audacity is "gambling." The price you often have to pay is overreach and defeat. Napoleon's audacity led straight to an historic defeat for Imperial France in Russia. France never recovered -- it's had two straight centuries of military defeats since Napoleon. His invasion of Russia also caused unimaginable suffering, just like Hitler's invasion a century later. Audacity is not necessarily a good thing.

Posted 21st January 2012 by Riccardo Di Capua

http://rdicapua.blogspot.com/2012/01/laudace-laudace-toujours-laudace.html

Not always a good thing. As Trump and some of his more daring disciples are slowly learning.