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“the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that…

— Charles Dickens

“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 in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much of Europe,…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves”

— Charles Dickens

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

— Alvaro de Vasconcelos

“throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things”

— Charles Dickens

Whether you like it or not, France's history is unique in Europe. Not to put too fine a point on it, France is a…

— Emmanuel Macron

“The leaders of the French Revolution and, subsequently, Napoleon exported the revolution to these lands, destroying absolutism, ending feudal land relations, abolishing guilds, and…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“One by one, Napoleon's armies toppled the ancient monarchies of Europe. The French believed the great ideals of their Republic-liberty, equality, and fraternity-were universal…

— David S. Kidder

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“By hamstringing the ability of French governments to act in the interests of the French people – or, to put it more realistically, by…

— Bernard Connolly

“To render the kings and higher nobility still more exclusive, they had a court language which was understood only by themselves, and which was…

— King David Kalakaua