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

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

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.

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

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.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!