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:
“A dog starved at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“I am the long world’s gentleman, he said,
And share my bed with Capricorn and Cancer.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)