Quotes About France

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

In 1833 a young monk, Dom Prosper, revived the Abbey of St. Pierre in Solesmes, France, and made it his mission to also bring back to life the original Gregorian chants.

She was a woman in the age of chivalry, when women were supposed to be the objects of a kind of worship, every knight being sworn to succor and help them in need and trouble. And the "Chivalry of England shamefully used and destroyed her; the Chivalry of France deserted and sold her." [27]

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

I loathed having to screw myself up to emergencies late in the day. Such things should take place in the early morning. It was like going over the top in France; I didn't mind it so much when it happened during a drizzling dawn, when one was anyhow depressed and only half-awake, but I abominated an attack in the cold-blooded daylight, or in the dusk when one wanted to relax.

The French have so many civil wars, they can win one now and again.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

Hundreds of leading socialists, initially in Italy but subsequently in Germany, France, and other countries, also became fascists.

Lafayette framed and hung The Declaration of Independence in his office beside an empty frame awaiting, he said, France's declaration of citizens' rights.

She saw the deepness that was at the edge of France and it made the beach under her feel like a ledge on a cliff.

You probably wouldn't want to have been around the castle in which France's King Charles VI lived during the early fifteenth century. Although earlier on in his life he had been known as 'Charles the Beloved', he later became known as 'Charles the Mad'.

The large courtyard was shaded by a linden tree, and we gathered and dried its leaves and flowers to make tilleul, an infusion commonly consumed after dinner in those parts of France.

The fact that this medieval France was almost entirely surrounded by rivers – for a little stream, la Thève, forms its northern boundary – probably gave rise to the expression, Île de France.

Abbey of Cluny

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

When Marie-Madeleine Fourcade died on July 20, 1989, at the age of seventy-nine, she became the first woman to be given a funeral at Les Invalides, a splendid complex of buildings in Paris that celebrates

General Erwin Rommel, commander of the 7th Panzer Division, was guilty of only slight hyperbole later when he said of his sweep through France: "Nowhere was any resistance attempted. . . . Hundreds upon hundreds of French troops, with their officers, surrendered at our arrival

But the maquis with whom des Isnards cooperated were mostly Spaniards who had fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and had fled to France after General Franco's fascist forces took control of the country in 1939.

Altair was not the first commercial microcomputer; that honor goes to the Micral, an Intel 8008—based machine that was sold in France starting in May 1973.