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Split Discussion edit
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- Z4ns4tsu 13:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC) - I don't really see that there is enough information here for one article, let alone two.
Summary edit
Can someone rewrite the summary? It's not very clear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.145.251.34 (talk) 18:30, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Peanuts edit
Article says: "In the early 1980's". Actually the first strip to reference (and indeed explicitly mention) "Beau Geste" seems to be from Aug 1979: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1979/08/10.
Parodies edit
The Magnificent Two movie (1967) - Morecambe and Wise are outnumbered and besieged with a small number of Latin American revolutionaries in a military museum. Eric suggests that they place the museum wax dummies with guns on the ramparts a la Beau Geste. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.210.174 (talk) 21:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Beau Nidle edit
Kenneth Horne used this in "Round the Horne" in May 1968 (series 4, episode 14), almost a decade before "The Generation Game". 87.244.90.160 (talk) 18:40, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
'The Wages of Virtue' edit
'The Wages of Virtue' was not subsequent to 'Beau Geste'. It was published in 1916, having been written in 1914, apparently inspired by two recent volumes of legion memoirs, and reflecting much of their content. This tends to support the theory that Wren's stories were derivative, and not based on first-hand experience of life in the legion. Valetude (talk) 22:53, 31 August 2022 (UTC)