The Unclassed (1884), ch. 1: School
“"Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?" "I do not doubt it. France is a great power."”
Conversation with Anthony Eden, recounted in de Gaulle's Mémoires de guerre. Quoted in The Atlantic, November 1960.
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