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.

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

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.

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.