I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.