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12 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017

The event is over

Affiche du département de recrutement irlandais, 1915 (détail)
© Bibliothèque du Congrès, Washington

Affiche du département de recrutement irlandais, 1915 (détail)
© Bibliothèque du Congrès, Washington
Entry: " Martingale (winning formula)", excerpt: "I had won four or five hundred ducats from one General Wrbna, from one Count Desoffi, and from three other officers the day before the Battle of Breslau. I had lost two thousand to Rodény, Thomassoly, Gablosson and Blanckenstein, who are still alive. The next day, I asked myself how these gentlemen were faring. Those who owed me money had been killed; the others were in fine fettle."
Charles-Joseph de Ligne, Mémoires du prince de Ligne, published by Mercure de France, Le Temps retrouvé coll., 2004, Paris, p. 199.
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Petite salle
When
12 Oct 2017