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“I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.”

— Mavis Gallant

“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“I pitied the French for their naivete in believing that they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Jules was frozen with incredulity. In truth, he could not speak. He was touched by the display of honor in two country squires, and…

— Julie Anne Long

“He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and…

— John Fowles

“Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to…

— Émile Zola

“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept…

— Colson Whitehead

“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson