La flur de France as perdut. The flower of France is lost.

-Anonymous
c.1110  Chanson de Roland, l.2445.

Cam ye ower frae France? Cam ye doun by Lunnon? Saw ye Geordie Whelps And his bonnie woman? Were ye at the place Ca'd the Kittle Housie? Saw ye Geordie's grace Ridin'on a goosie?

-Anonymous
c.1715  'CamYe Ower Frae France?', stanza1. This  Jacobite song alludes to George I and his reputed fondness for visiting brothels.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'To a Republican FriendöContinued'.

   We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has sacrificed, until France is adequatelyassured against the menace of aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are placed upon an unassailable foundation and until the military domination of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed.

-Asquith
  Speech at the Guildhall, London, 9 Nov.

France, me'  re des arts, des armes et des lois. France, mother of arts, of weapons and of laws.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Les Regrets, no.9.

My map of Africa liesin Europe.Here lies Russia and here lies France, and we are in the middle. That is my map of Africa.

-of)
Remarking on his preoccupation with European, as opposed to colonial, territorial concerns. Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor The Struggle for Mastery in Europe1848^1918 (1954), p.294. Canadian scholar anduniversity administrator, President of the University ofToronto (1958^71).

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France.

-Bourassa, Henri
  La Langue, Gardienne de la Foi.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.3, bk.7, ch.7.

We shall not flag or fail.We shall go on to the end.We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.We shall fight on the beaches, weshall fight onthelanding grounds, weshall fight inthe fields and in thestreets, we shall fight inthehills.We shall never surrender.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech in the House of Commons,4  Jun, after the Dunkirk evacuation.

La France a perdu une bataille! Mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre! France has lost a battle! But France has not lost the war!

-de Gaulle, Charles
  Proclamation,18  Jun. Collected in Discours, messages et de¤  clarations du Ge¤  ne¤  ral de Gaulle (1941).

Puisque ceux qui avaient le devoir de manier l'e¤  pe¤  e de la France l'ont laisse¤  e tomber brise¤  e, moi, j'ai ramasse¤   le tron c° on du glaive. Since those whose duty it was to wield the sword of Francehave let it fall shattered totheground,Ihavetaken up the broken blade.

-de Gaulle, Charles
  Speech,13  Jul.

Vive le Que¤  bec! Vive le Que¤  bec libre! Vive le Canada fran c° ais! Vive la France!

-de Gaulle, Charles
  Address to the crowd before Montreal's City Hall, 24  Jul. The slogan'Que¤  bec libre' was identified with the separatist cause.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

-de Gaulle, Charles
Sons of France.

   Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry.

-Drayton, Michael
  Poems Lyrick and Pastorall,'To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, His Ballad of  Agincourt', describing Henry V's expedition to France,1415.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
   Journal entry, 30  Apr. Collected in  An Unfinished Woman (1969), ch.13.

It is better to sniff France's dung for a while than eat China's all our lives. 405

-Ho Chi Minh originally NguyenThatThanh
   Attributed. Quoted in  J Facouture Ho Chi-Minh.

L'Angleterre toujours sera s½ur de la France. England will always be the sister of France.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Cromwell, act 2, sc.2.

The best thing I know between France and England isöthe sea.

-Jerrold, Douglas William
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published1859),'The Anglo-French  Alliance'.

And as for you, archers, soldiers, gentlemen, and all otherswhoare besieging Orleans,depart in God'sname to your own country† I assure you that wherever I find your people in France I shall fight them, and pursue them, and expel them from here, whether they will or not.

-StJoan of Arc
  Letter to the English at Poitiers, 22 Mar. Quoted in Les Proce'  s de Jeanne d'Arc (translated by C Larrington), p.33.

Like Brighton Pieröall right as far as it goes, but inadequate for getting to France.

-Kinnock, Neil Gordon
  On Conservative European policy, House of Commons, 2 Feb.