Reply To: A skirmish near the Berezina

[Patrice]

Mike wrote:

Thanks for sharing. I am quite partial to this translation: “Under his stiff tunic of gel, the refrigerant Hubert also has a beating heart”

I had to read the French AAR again for this…! 😉 It should be “Under his tunic stiff with frost (or stiff frozen?)“ … um, and then, “frigorifiant“ of refrigerant has no much meaning else than you can feel the cold if you touch him, but anyway at the end: he has a beating heart.

I think our writers got carried by a mix of 19th century literature and 19th century popular expressions…

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