They are sculptures on the Arc de Triomphe, as Frenchie said. The missing one is The triumph of Napoleon in 1810, erected in recognition of either Austerlitz or Leipzig. The series commemorates the French dead of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Symbolically they represent the sequence Departure - Victory - resistance (before the combined Russian/Prussian forces before the gates of Paris - and peace.
Correct - Le Triomphe de 1810. Frenchie - your answer was actually an alternative name for the first one in the sequence. Over to you cologne....
You might be left handed, but I think you have to hold your stick with your right hand when playing polo.
Correct Frenchie. Left handed play is considered too dangerous in polo - the U.S. Polo association actually banned left handed players in the past, but I think that would be an illegal ruling now - however they are forced to play right handed. Over to you.
Who are the two people in this tennis match? "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament - you against me!"
Think I'll head off too - leaving this for any night owls to mull over: If two is company and three's a crowd, what are four and five?
In the absence of any inspiration could 4 and 5 make 9 ? Or is that too simple. Or is four the beginning of a party....and 5 ?
