“What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation.”
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955) 23rd President of the French Republic
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation.”
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955) 23rd President of the French Republic
“France cannot be France without greatness.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
La France ne peut être la France sans la grandeur.
in Mémoires de guerre.
Writings
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
[2008-02-08, Romney suspends White House bid, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7233537.stm]
2008
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”
Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef
“France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.”
Mark Riebling (1963) American writer
Churchill’s Finest Hour (2009)
Jules Michelet (1798–1874) French historian
[Histoire de France, Michelet, Jules, Chamerot, 1861, 1, book 3]
History of France, 1833-1867
Jacques Bainville (1879–1936) French historian and journalist
Action Française (1 December 1918), quoted in William R. Keylor, Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in Twentieth-Century France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 129.