When God created France, He realized that He had gone overboard in creating the most perfect place on Earth. So to balance it out, he created the French people.
The reason French streets have trees planted down both sides is that the Germans like to march in the shade.
I am not like a lady at the court of Versailles, who said: what a dreadful pity that the bother at the tower of Babel should have got language all mixed up; but for that, everyone would always have spoken French~Voltaire, Letter to Catherine the Great (May 26 1767)
The Republic has no need of chemists or savants. The course of justice shall not be interrupted.
Jean Baptiste Coffinhal, President of the French Revolutionary Tribunal that condemned Antoine Lavoisier to the guillotine on trumped-up charges, rejecting his plea for clemency (May 8, 1794).
We propose to burn the academic libraries, because Theology is only fanaticism, History is lies, Philosophy is dreams, and Science is unnecessary. The Commune of Marseilles
The French! They're the fellows we shall be fighting next. -- Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, 1919.
The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France. Thomas Jefferson
The victory of the battle of Waterloo helped the English by giving London a large railway station, the appropriate terminus for arrivals from the continent. GJW
The Republic has no need for men of science.
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-93), on the occasion of condemning the celebrated chemist Lavoisier to death at the guillotine.
You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil. -- Horatio Nelson
The French have a short-man's complex. I recently ran into a Frenchman who lectured me on the prowess of the Napoleonic armies, their last winning team. ("Cry havoc, and let slip the Frogs of yore," I thought.) -- Fred Reed, "In The Shadow Of Fort Terror" http://fredoneverything.net/LifeInGuad.shtml
If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there. -- Kenneth Stilling
A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people. - Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 &endash; 1909), describing part of France
The faithless vain disturber of mankind, Insulting Gaul.--James Thomson, _The Seasons--Autumn_, 1730
On being asked by a Frenchman as to the spelling of his surname, Woodrow Wyatt replied, "Waterloo, Ypres, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Trafalgar." Reported in The Times
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