Age Quote by Andre Gide

“If you believe the many biographies of great men and women, none of them ever had syphilis. Which would be a remarkable stroke of…

— Jennifer Wright

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army…

— Carl Zimmer

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained…

— Novalis

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived…

— Peter Lewis Allen

I don't think that France is responsible for the Vel d'Hiv.

— Marine Le Pen

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

— Claire Denis

“A not uncommon practice was to associate nationality with a particular disease, often sexually transmitted. For example, the English called syphilis "The French Disease";…

— Daniel N. Leeson

France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

— Princess Michael of Kent

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit…

— William Shakespeare

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

— Richard Holbrooke