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My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia where the study of Continental statesmen has been almost forced upon me.

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Skiing with friends in Reberty, France, after the Winter Olympics in 2010, was an amazing trip. I was at my happiest surrounded by all those mountains.

Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.