“Those of your fellow countrymen who believe that France dreams or has dreams of the political or economic annihilation of Germany are mistaken…no reasonable Frenchman has ever dreamt of annexing a parcel of German territory.”

Letter to British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (25 February 1924), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940 (London: Arnold, 1995), p. 101.

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