FRANCE QUOTES III

quotations about France

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France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

CHAMFORT

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France may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

LILLIAN HELLMAN

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With respect to modern languages, French, as I have before observed, is indispensible.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

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In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

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So don't go to Paris, France
Not unless you like to dance
Not unless you want romance
Like those poor inhabitants of Paree

ROSEMARY CLOONEY

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One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.

DE LA REYNIERE

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France is like a house where guests are not expected. Her doors are closed; her shutters are down. She is burning tapers within for her dead, and preparing the mysteries of death for her enemies. She is not at home to strangers. One feels that at every turn, as if to come here at all is an intrusion.

CORRA HARRIS

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The creation of Modern France through expansion goes back to the establishment of a small kingdom in the area around Paris in the late tenth century and was not completed until the incorporation of Nice and Savoy in 1860. The existing "hexagon" was the result of a long series of wars and conquests involving the triumph of French language and culture over what once were autonomous and culturally distinctive communities. The assimilation of Gascons, Savoyards, Occitans, Basques, and others helped to sustain the myth that French overseas expansionism in the nineteenth century, especially to North and West Africa, was a continuation of the same assimilationist project.

GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON

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I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.

ADOLF HITLER

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