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

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

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

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

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.