Century Quote by Charles de Gaulle

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

— John Corigliano

For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.

— Henry A. Kissinger

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th…

— Raoul Dufy

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

— Brian France

In France, history is paralyzing.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

“The end of the nineteenth century is often referred to as the "fin de siècle" because of its philosophy of decadence, and the first…

— Phillip Dennis Cate

“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today…

— Harvey Cox

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

— Jeff Lindsay

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

— Charles de Gaulle

Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.

— Katherine Langford

France has always fascinated me. It is a country that boasts of rich culture, heritage and of course, royalty.

— Shakti Mohan

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a…

— Charles de Gaulle