Modern
The Marine Infantry, Parachute, Artillery and Engineer units remain as a distinct branch within the modern French Army.
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Famous quotes containing the word modern:
“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless.... They have put into practise the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)