If the South Africans did not pull him out to the safety of suburban Pretoria, a French expeditionary force, shiny and efficient, sometimes arrived to remove him before he went too far.

• 如果南非兵没有把他救出并保护在南非比勒陀利亚城郊的话，气势澎湃与百战百胜的法国远征军就时而会来将他解职，以免他制造的麻烦不得收拾。