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Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.
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You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.
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Good only for destruction - has destroyed all that was valuable in the monarchy - is destroying France with daemonic energy - this tawdry, theatrical empire - a deeply vulgar man - nothing French about him - insane ambition - the whole world one squalid tyranny. His infamous treatment of the Pope!
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Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries.
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Remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
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Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!
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To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
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The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place.
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I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope ... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.
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You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
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Instruct the mothers of the French people.
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You are the eternal France, I love you.
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The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
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His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
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Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
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Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
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Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese' (Charles de Gaulle, 1961 speech)
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He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.
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My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.
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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
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I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
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Eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille;
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The Republic can count on me to battle its enemies ... Offensive war suits the passionate character of the French, but it is the responsibility of the man in charge of leading them to prepare with caution and wisdom everything that leads to victory.
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Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.
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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)
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France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
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Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.
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There is just one France ... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
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This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.
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France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.
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... No one ever truly conquers the French.
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I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
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France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.
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I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
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I don't live in France, I live in myself.
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I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.
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I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.
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Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign
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There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
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The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
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Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
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I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood ... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.
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[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
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There are only two parties in France: the people and its enemies. We must exterminate those miserable villains who are eternally conspiring against the rights of man ... We must exterminate all our enemies.
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Frenchman: Germans with good food.
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It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group ... But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.
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France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Him - ce genie-la. Every nation has its own ideals of every
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I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.
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France is the genius among nations.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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for the French clergy,
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His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe.
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I don't know why people are surprised the French don't want to help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose. Every time I have to decide between you [Charles de Gaulle] and Roosevelt, I shall always choose Roosevelt.
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Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
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Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
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The French announced today that they would not help us remove Saddam from Iraq. Well Duh! They didn't even help us remove Hitler
from France.
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The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Who hit you?"
"Why, so you can go beat him up?"
"One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection."
"I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude."
"He hurt you."
"And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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The tastes of France are changing and we are the last of the banquet.
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Francaise with our own proper pack. This permission, we feel bound to say, was graciously granted; which compels us here to give a public contradiction to the slanderers who pretend that we live
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The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.
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If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
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Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,
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France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
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If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.
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Long live the Republic, and long live France.
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George P. A. Healy; I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience - which is sometimes a great help - and a strong desire to be my very best.
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France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.
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I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.
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The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.
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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.
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We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.
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French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.
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Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
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Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.
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It is only in our beautiful France that wholesale slaughter is done lawfully, in the name of liberty and of brotherly love
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He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
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Was even personally acquainted with Admiral Fontaine was
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.