#france

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#decision #destroyed #france #home #hope

You'd think the sight of beautiful Place Vendôme would lift my spirits but oddly the arc of jewellery - so obviously beyond the means of a jobless person like me - only depresses me more. I plod on feeling confused, guilty even, that I should feel unhappy in a place that looks like paradise. ↗

— Sarah Turnbull

#france #paris #beauty

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#fragrance #france #must #oneself

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. ↗

— Stendhal

#envy #far #far less #france #less

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#burst #came #flower #france #government

France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment. ↗

— James Douglas

#france #i #incidents #occur #pleased

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#france #hotel #loves #son #south