Quotes About French

Where Jefferson dismissed these wholesale killings as regrettable but necessary sacrifices to freedom, Hamilton was traumatized by them. The burgeoning atheism of the French Revolution reawakened in him religious feelings that had lain dormant since King's College days.

Lafayette showed a courtier's love of compliments, was a master of flattery, and liked to hug people in the French manner. Perhaps Washington doted on the young man because he dared to express emotions that he himself stifled, thawing his frosty reserve and opening an outlet for his suppressed emotions.

An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that allowed no deviation. page 714

This day, Gen. Washington, Gen. Mifflin and four others of the convention did us the honor of paying us a visit in order to see our vineyard and bee houses," said Peter Legaux, a French immigrant. "In this they found great delight, asked a number of questions, and testified their highest approbation with my manner of managing bees.

that countries follow their interests, not their sympathies—was engraved in Hamilton's memory, and he often reminded Jeffersonians later on that the French had fought for their own selfish purposes.

As many Republicans had predicted, the French had retaliated against the Jay Treaty by allowing their privateers to prey on American ships carrying contraband cargo bound for British ports. With Napoleon emerging as the new French military strongman, Hamilton had little doubt that his troops would spread despotism across Europe.

On May 16, 1797, President Adams delivered a bellicose message to Congress, denouncing the French for ejecting Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and stalking American ships and chiding them for having "inflicted a wound in the American breast.

I can see him now, going over the long French bills, studying each item, many of them being unintelligible to him.

The range had been exceptional. An apartment balcony fourteen hundred yards away had been identified as the rifleman's hide. Fourteen hundred yards is more than three-quarters of a mile. The French president had been at an open-air podium behind

porc aux pruneaux

Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.

Chang said, "The French are crazy." Reacher said, "My mother was French." "Was she crazy?" "Pretty much.

On May 9, 1916, the British and French entered into a clandestine treaty on how they intended to carve up the region. The treaty was the Sykes-Picot, named for the negotiators. Always described as infamous, the treaty ignored both Jewish aspirations and Sharif Husain's personal ambitions. And so Palestine became the 'twice promised land.

Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.

Où est ma chatte?

What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It's such a bother that it must be masculine.

Anger at the senselessness of my situation, at the stupidity of French bureaucracy, filled me to the very pores. My intelligence failed to offer the argument that I was dealing not with individual men but with a system.

The French not only refused any co-operation from us German anti-Fascists, they locked us up.

The patrolling of the roads was slackest around the noon hour, for to the French police, as to other Frenchmen, mealtime was a sacred hour.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Le galbe évasé de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur?