How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!