Two months Quote by Marcel Proust

“Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended…

— Marcel Proust

“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.”

— Jo Walton

“Among Paris's kindred," he continues, "we lost our beloved Geneviève Emmanuelle Lorieux. She died in 1943, executed by firing squad for having smuggled food…

— Amy Plum

Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.

— Jacques Villeneuve

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

— William Shakespeare

“It was as if the house, like time, like Paris—like France itself—was sleeping under some malevolent spell.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event…

— Victor Hugo

That certain snobbery of certainly the Parisian - combined with a complete denial of your historical legacy, is just awful. That's a funny thing…

— Martin Amis

“The Bastille, where I live, is best known as the site where the infamous prison was seized and ransacked by the masses, igniting the…

— David Lebovitz

“One of those captured was d'Ailly, as ordered by Louis of Anjou and the future king of Naples, on the charge of blasphemy, as…

— Charles River Editors