Before compulsory education, there seems to have been very little difference in the speech of the Scottish and English borderers.

The answers, of course, might turn out to be trivial and obvious. The accent divide [across the Anglo-Scottish border], for instance, is probably quite recent. Local children have the accent of their primary school: pupils at Bewcastle School sound English while pupils at Newcastleton School, six miles away in Scotland, sound Scottish. Before compulsory education to the age of fourteen, there seems to have been very little difference in the speech of the Scottish and English borderers.

G. Robb, The debatable land (2018), 21

The man whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile

The man [de Gaulle] whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile and emboldened its cringing listeners in their darkened rooms had stridden Paris like a giant. Though his gauntness bore poignant testimony to four long years of London fog and English food, he still had the bearing of a leader. he had stooped beneath the arc de Triomphe and laid a cross of white roses on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He had walked the length of the Champs-Élysées cheered from every tree and lamp post, saluted by officers whose cratered cheeks were moist with tears and kissed by pretty girls who darted from the crowd waving hankerchiefs and ribbons.

G. Robb, The Parisians (2010), 317

Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor

Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor, but he is prepared to sacrifice his reputation, which is besmirched almost every day - by liberals and socialists, who forget that the poor now have hospital beds and proper graves; by nostalgic bohemians, who forget everything; and even by his own social equals, who find the inconvenience of moving house too heavy a price to pay for the most beautiful city in the world

G. Robb, The Parisians (2010), 147