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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into ...

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Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with ...

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The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too ...

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Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a w...

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Robert Barr (writer)The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the ...

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The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

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Simone de BeauvoirMemoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. I...

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “...

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ...

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If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor ...

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bullshit french post-war rationalizing

Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man. When the other krauts saw him drink water in the Bee...

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Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be s...

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Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to ...

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When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather tha...

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New Rule: Conservatives have to stop rolling their eyes every time they hear the word "France." Like...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the o...

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You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative an...

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who ...

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With heart at rest I climbed the citadel'sSteep height, and saw the city as from a tower,Hospital, b...

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Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's f...

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You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her.Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good d...

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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, s...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the l...

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If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk thro...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cord...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfull...

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Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and f...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art...

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The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

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Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had take...

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