Gia Long trusted Duyệt and his fellow southerners; all of the viceroy's lheading deputies were locally bred men, whereas many of those who ran the north were not.
Redbeard also describes women's "noblest occupation" as "not merely to read erotic novels, pound the fiddle, waltz divinely, or fry steak and onions, but to breed men, to raise up a race of unsubduable fighters – fighters for their own hand".
He went on, professorial and sincere, to give me the story of how a born and bred German man could have so much affinity with the Russians and their plight to make it his heartfelt cause célèbre.
That would be the Double Jab ABC, tucked away behind New Cross station in south-east London, the kind of neighbourhood that over the years has bred fighting men.
He recalls being repelled by the idea of being in the company of those ex-members who turned into fanatical anti-communists and describes keeping faith with fallen anti-fascist heroes, "because the movement bred such men and women".
With four month to go until the state's primary election and eight months until New York ac tually, elects a new governor, three Democratic candidates for that job were sitting in a tele vision studio last week making the nervous small talk of well bred college men chasing the same girl.
He acknowledged that he and Mr. Edwards are a rare breed: men addicted to physics and bowling.
So it seems an ideal moment to conduct an informal survey among that special breed, men and women who are celebrated for their contribution to the city's energy, who in some ways define what it is to be a New Yorker, yet who hail from some other part of the world.
I now get regular offers to "breed" men, often groups of men, many of them about the same age I was in 1989.
One man "bred and buttered" in the backwoods told Granik: "I recognised the land you showed me.
