#french

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#french #landscape #pure #verse

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#barriers #bit #cross #doing #film

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#burnt #capable #cricket #french #had

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. ↗

— William John Wills

#england #father #french #i #i see

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#certain #eat #feel #foods #french

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#any #battle #did #engaged #forces

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all. ↗

— Eva Green

#about #dog #exercising #french #going

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ago #asked #because #books #both

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#director #foreigner #french #frenchman #i