“You will understand and know the German Republic better when it elects Hindenburg president.”

— Jacques Bainville

Remark (25 November 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. 133.

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