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

“In the days after Sedan, Prussian envoys met with the French and demanded a large cash indemnity as well as the cession of Alsace…

— Geoffrey Wawro

“We finally drove the Germans back and we entered the Alsace-Lorraine region, which is part French and part German.”

— Charles Brandt

“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Home! he'd cried out like a child that would give anything not to be seeing what it was seeing, but precisely in this one…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

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

— Jo Walton

“They could not help loving anything that made them laugh. The Lisbon earthquake was “embarrassing to the physicists and humiliating to theologians” (Barbier). It…

— Nancy Mitford

remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.

— Fran Lebowitz

France is my home.

— Gael Monfils

“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

Let's put an end to this European civil war, the existence of which we don't want to admit, and stop constantly looking at whether…

— Emmanuel Macron

“He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries,…

— Thomas Paine