Books Quote by Michael Baigent

“René d’Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding the Renaissance.”

— Michael Baigent

“Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen”

— Andrew Nikiforuk

From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

— Christian Dior

“In 1969, en route for a summer holiday in the Cévennes, I made the casual purchase of a paperback. Le Trésor Maudit by Gérard…

— Michael Baigent

As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the fin de…

— Marcel Proust

“Musee de l'Homme.”

— Patrick Manning

“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”

— Roger Shattuck

“the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that…

— Charles Dickens

“ Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.) [ Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a…

— Anonymous

“Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

“Many of them were familiar from childhood with the fables of La Fontaine. Or they had read Voltaire or Racine or Molière in English…

— David McCullough