Quotes about French history

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After a time I saw what I believed, at the time, to be a radio relay station located out on a desolate sand spit near Vi — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two...."
When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
The French by their nature had a permanent hunger for sensation. This was even more true of the eighteenth century, of w — Antal Szerb, The Queen's Necklace
It is not the business of a Queen to be human. — Antal Szerb, The Queen's Necklace
If you spent time thinking about the future, you wouldn't be a true adventurer. An adventure is something that happens f — Antal Szerb, The Queen's Necklace
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose. — Meghan Masterson, The Wardrobe Mistress: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography