“Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.”

— Jacques Bainville

Action Française (3 July 1913), 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. 65.

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French historian and journalist 1879–1936

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