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

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

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

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

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

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

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