A virgin woman has saved France as a virgin man has saved all mankind. (Une pucelle a sauvé la France, – Comme Un puceau a sauvé tous les hommes.)

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say “Good morning, sir” or “madam,” depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite...

Majestatis naturæ by ingenium (Genius equal to the majesty of nature.)[Inscribed ordered by King Louis XV for the base of a statue of Buffon placed at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris.]

Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never left such roads, were never tempted to peruse those easy successes which, for...

You’d think the sight of beautiful Place Vendôme would lift my spirits but oddly the arc of jewellery – so obviously beyond the means of a jobless person like me – only depresses me more....

Generalization is the biggest challenge that must be dealt with if we are to create spaces for constructive dialogue where muslims feel they are welcomed. This is equally true with regards to Westerners! Not all...

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel’s bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet...

The walking tour guides one through the city’s various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular...

Une guerre à outrance contre la religion, la société, la famille, la propriété, tout ce que la Révolution n’a pas fait, elle le hait ; tout ce qu’elle hait, elle le détruit. Donnez-lui aujourd’hui le...

It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn’t know how to say, ‘bonjour.’ You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and...

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

I’ll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don’t like gray areas.

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like “to feel comfortable in their own skin” and “to find their path in the world.” They want their kids...

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant...

The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. “The trick is moderation,” he said.

I know of no other place that is so fascinating yet so frustrating, so aware of the world and its own place within it but at the same time utterly insular. A country touched by...

The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France,...

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Je suis la haine de tout ordre religieux et social que l’homme n’a pas établi et dans lequel il n’est pas roi et Dieu tout ensemble ; je suis la proclamation des droits de l’homme...

Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened, massive diamonds groaned scornfully in their settings. It was a stationary riot.

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!

You are hard at work madam ,” said the man near her.Yes,” Answered Madam Defarge ; ” I have a good deal to do.”What do you make, Madam ?”Many things.”For instance —“For instance,” returned Madam...

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Lies Have expiry dates but the truth never expires

[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to...

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed...

I hate France. It’s like the whole country’s on a diet

There are only two things in life,’ Bergé said. ‘Love and beauty.

Eiffel Tower” To Robert DelaunayEiffel Tower Guitar of the skyYour wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the beesDuring the night The Seine no longer flowsTelescope or bugleEIFFEL TOWERAnd it’s a hive of words Or...

Our values were under attacks, in ParisTell them:We stand UNITEDWe’ll defend our valuesWe’ll NOT be DIVIDED

You’re the best gay friend I’ve ever had!

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La Révolution est Dieu détrôné et l’homme à sa place.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in...

Second: them poor things well out o’ this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher’s flopping, never no more!””Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be,” said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes...

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

bohemian Paris,” where French artists had gathered and cabaret songs had filled the air. In its heyday, Montmartre was one of the centers of popular entertainment, and its artists prided themselves on flying in the...

Most of [her ashes] fell into the river in a long gray curtain. But some was caught by the wind and blown upward toward the blue spring sky where it swirled a moment in the...

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

It looks like a funeral parlour in here. Am I dead?

… she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...