Before introducing Lieutenant de Tessan, aide to General Joffre, and
Colonel Fabry, the "Blue Devil of France," Chairman Spencer, of the St.
Louis entertainment committee, at the M.A.A. breakfast told this
anecdote:
"In Washington Lieutenant de Tessan was approached by a pretty American girl, who said:
'And did you kill a German soldier?'
" "'Yes,' he replied.
'With what hand did you do it?' she inquired.
" "'With this right hand,' he said.
And then the pretty American girl seized his right hand and kissed it.
Colonel Fabry stood near by. He strolled over and said to Lieutenant de
Tessan:
" 'Heavens, man, why didn't you tell her that you bit him to death?'