If this were two or three years later in Feuilly's life, he'd hotly contest the statement that Poland isn't in Europe. As it is, he just nods; it's one of those places that isn't France. "Yeah, it's controlled by Russia now, too. That's why Napoleon is going to send troops there, to Russia. Someone was talking about it in a café yesterday."

No one happened to be talking about Germany, not by that name, so he can't really add much to that: but it all sounds awfully familiar in a general way. "But you said there wasn't a war? Just that, that--Falklands--thing, you said."