Built Quote by Charles de Gaulle

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

— Anonymous

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

— Elie Ducommun

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a…

— Dan Brown

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

— Joachim du Bellay

The French courage proceeds from vanity

— Lord Byron

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

— Pierre Laval

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

— Brian France

“But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do…

— Frederick the Great

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

— Charles de Gaulle

The French are very individualistic.

— Eric Rohmer

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay