#france

France does not practice revenge. ↗

— Francois Fillon

#france #practice #revenge

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#family #france #like #lunch #more

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#concentration #france #ten #were

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#being #cannot #errors #france #french

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#had #i #might #saving #television

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #france #habit #into #marry

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#felt #france #home #i #more