America Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

There's something Vichy about the French.

— Ivor Novello

“Vichy emerged not only from what divided the French but also what united them: pacifism, fear of population decline, loss of confidence in national…

— Julian Jackson

(I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the…

— Jonah Goldberg

Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable…

— Robert O. Paxton

There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the…

— Robert O. Paxton

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

— Frederic Raphael

I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.

— Marine Le Pen

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced…

— Lou Doillon

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to…

— Marine Le Pen

“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I…

— Edmund White

Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be…

— Robert O. Paxton

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole