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.

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

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!

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

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

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.