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Re: Which is better-Red or Blue?
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lugnet.pirates
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Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:28:35 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Pedro Silva writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Richie Dulin writes:
> > I'll have to get back to you on that one (google was not my friend for
> > yellow pants!). I recall seeing French soldiers in yellow pants in the
> > (2000?) French movie of Les Miserables, and checking it for accuracy
> > afterward. Can't remember the reference, though.
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> Ok, so here are my wild guesses:
> a) Parisian Police (no kidding!)
> b)Soldiers, dated from around 1825-30 (Conquest of Algeria?)
Sounds about right!
Actually, I'm getting over the shock of seeing a local production of Les
Miserable last Friday night.... the guards at Toulon, the soldiers wandering
the red light district of Montreuil-su-Mer and the Sergeant of Waterloo
himself were all to be seen wearing *red* coats.... Ahhh!!!
At least Javert and the police were still in blue.
Cheers
Richie
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| (...) Those too. Actually, I don't use them as Napoleonic Infantry, I tend to use them as Soldiers from the Portuguese Civil War (1826-1834). These are the Constitutionalists, the Absolutist army should be predominantly brown. However, since my city (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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