Good humor prevailed, each diner making allowances, and here for the first time I heard that expression, destined to become so popular as an excuse for almost anything: Cest la guerre!
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
As he moved, there ran through the house the excited whisper, "Cest le Duc d'Otranto."
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Cest Breuiare est a l'usaige des Jacobins.
"A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two"
Thomas Frognall Dibdin