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''Hors de combat'', literally meaning "outside the fight," is a French term used in diplomacy and international law to refer to combatants who are incapable of performing their ability to wage war. Examples include fighter pilots or aircrews parachuting from their disabled aircraft, as well as the sick, wounded, detained, or otherwise disabled. Combatants ''hors de combat'' are normally granted special protections according to the laws of war, sometimes including prisoner-of-war status, and therefore officially became non-combatants. Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, unlawful combatants ''hors de combat'' are granted the same privilege and to be treated with humanity while in captivity but unlike lawful combatants, they are subject to trial and punishment, which includes execution. Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions defines:
==In literature== *F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Froggy Parker as Amory Blaine flirted with Isabelle in ''This Side of Paradise'': *Baroness Orczy wrote in her famous novel ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'': *Kurt Vonnegut described himself as ''hors de combat'' on the title page of his famous anti-war novel, ''Slaughterhouse Five'': *Jules Verne, in ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', has Captain Nemo explain: *Alexandre Dumas's characters in ''The Three Musketeers'' several times refer to men wounded as "hors de combat," specifically when describing fights to others as a method of recounting casualties, such as the King Louis XIII of France to the Musketeers after a violent time in the city: *The well-known safari-hunting author Peter Hathaway Capstick uses the phrase in various contexts in his books ''The Last Ivory Hunter, Death in the Long Grass, and Death in the Silent Places. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hors de combat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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