De Gaulle's use of obscure vernacular profanity in a major speech was initially mistranslated by The Guardian and the English press corps as chien lit - dog bed, alluding to a chaotic, dishevelled, malodorous, flea pit.
Famous quotes containing the words dog and/or bed:
“The bite of conscience, like a dog biting a stone, is a stupidity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)