Posted on 11/03/2015 2:18:31 AM PST by Libloather
European
It's actually a line from the French poet Paul Verlaine. When the BBC broadcast that verse - as it did on June 5, 1944 - it was a sign to the French resistance that the D-Day was to begin within 48 hours.
I remember that fact from a LP record on D-Day that I heard as a child. The actual broadcast was included in the record. For some reason it stuck with me.
Use in World War II
“In preparation for Operation Overlord, the BBC had signaled to the French Resistance that the opening lines of the 1866 Verlaine poem “Chanson d’Automne” were to indicate the start of D-Day operations. The first three lines of the poem, “Les sanglots longs / des violons / de l’automne” (”Long sobs of autumn violins”), meant that Operation Overlord was to start within two weeks. These lines were broadcast on 1 June 1944. The next set of lines, “Blessent mon coeur / d’une langueur / monotone” (”wound my heart with a monotonous languor”), meant that it would start within 48 hours and that the resistance should begin sabotage operations especially on the French railroad system; these lines were broadcast on 5 June at 23:15.”
Wonder how long they would have dangled there if they had criticized someone on the leftist side of aisle?
Panthers;)
Missing Tag line repair.
Carry on
Karrie Okie
LOL!
My initial thought was clear the seats below and cut the lines just to see the looks on their faces.
or
Start charging for a bucket of balls and line up the Fans above them begin game;)
It makes the name too long and the leftist media overuses the name as unpaid to the media advertizing.
Look up how much those corporations pay for "naming rights" and you may want to reconsider.
Perhaps you don’t understand how advertising works and how it’s a critical part of the free enterprise system. The stadia are named PRECISELY because the media will be forced to use the name to talk about the events held there.
This probably started with Wrigley Field....a name that is now iconic. Is that somehow superior because it was a chewing gum empire and not banking?
Before this kind of marketing came on the scene, many stadia were named after well connected crooked crony politicians. Is that better? This naming rights revenue stream helps defray costs from ticket holders and tax payers.
I agree it is sometimes a bit clunky - but it’s a valid part of the free market system, which a lot of stadia financing is not.
It wasn’t called Wrigley Chewing Gum Field. Nor is there a Ford Motor Company Field.
From the headline I thought it must mean dropping trou!
I hate it when people do that.
When General Motors built a hockey arena in Vancouver, the company got quite upset when the press referred to it as “The Garage” instead of GM Place.
After the financial fiasco, it was renamed “Rogers Arena”, but occasionally one of the older readers will drop “The Garage”.
totally irrelevant...it’s not called Bank of America Express Checking or Bank of America Mortgage either.......the lost art of analogy around here....sad.
Call it BOA Taxpayer Funded Stadium, they are a buncha snakes anyway.
“From the headline I thought it must mean dropping trou!”
I can understand the confusion. It did say they were “dangling unhindered”.
They cleared the seats below. I was hoping they did that so they could cut their ropes and let them drop.
Dang it...I just posted the same thought.
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