The Forests of the Night the war as it really was, as James Kirkup observed, an "acid portrait of those who played at being members of the [French] Resistance". The novel's theme and title come from the opening lines to William Blake's poem "The Tyger": "Tiger, tiger, burning bright - in the forests of the night." "The Forests of the Night" was translated in 1951 into English by Nora Wydenbruck; it has not been re-printed since. Francis is the son of the Comte de Balansun, whose family resides in the French town of Saint-Clar, near the Pyrenees. Francis, in the beginning of the novel, skips
Marian “Tyger” Trimiar license, but in reality, Trimiar applied for her boxing license first with New York State, and technically should have received it first on that day. She even protested the fact that Cat Davis was handed her license first, and the whole ordeal had suspicious racial overtones to it. Trimiar was truly one of the greatest female boxer in the 1970s and 1980s. Marian “Tyger” Trimiar Marian “Lady Tyger” Trimiar is an American athlete who was a pioneer in Women's boxing. The 1979 World’s Women’s lightweight boxing champion, Trimiar was a vocal supporter of making the sport more accessible to women.