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“he to remain in Paris,”

— P.B. Ryan

“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

“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so…

— Edmund White

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding

“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.”

— Iain Pears

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

There is a certain dignity to being French.

— Brigitte Bardot

“I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’t. He worked in…

— Chila Woychik

“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a…

— Sarah Bakewell

“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...”

— Leo Tolstoy

“To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.”

— Victor Hugo

“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.…

— Maurice Dekobra