When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
One cannot govern with 'buts'.