French was my first language.

quote by Bob Cousy
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Charles: On what submissive message art thou sent?
Lucy: Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;
We English warriors wot not what it means.

classic lines from the play Henry VI, Act IV, Scene 7, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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The French cook; we open tins.

quote by John Galsworthy
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A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

quote by Art Buchwald
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Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.

French proverbs
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

quote by Goethe
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

quote by Goethe
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Young Girls

Girls are enchanted by rupee’s tails
They bear an image of firebirds;
The girls leave behind their parents’ home,
Follow the Frenchmen obediently.

poem by Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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Frenchman for the Night

Comes a song I've heard before
A scratchy grammaphone
Cuts to the bone
La vie en rose arpeggios
So the dream begins
And the song is amplified
Buy the beaujolais
On Bastille Day
He dances in the tide
Chorus:
By the light of the moon
Hes a frenchman for the night
By the light of the moon
It'll be all right
Well it takes him back
To the days of love and war
And the girl he knew
With eyes of blue
Waiting on the shore
If hed only known

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song performed by Jimmy Buffett, music by Jimmy Buffett, Roger Guth (1994)
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Does this boat go to Europe, France?

quote by Anita Loos
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I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

quote by Leslie Caron
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The Italian invents it; the Frenchman makes it; the Germans sell it; the Pole buys it and the Tartar plunders it.

Polish proverbs
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I do not separate France from Europe.

quote by Lionel Jospin
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I always knew I would live in France.

quote by Andre Boucourechliev
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There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen
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It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

quote by Kenneth Baker
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Dreams of France

Oh, dreams of France! Oh, faded dreams of France!
Ohm France, that I had ever dreamed of thee!
I thought to help thee bear thy brandished lance,
But, lo, I sail the blue Aegean sea!
Sweet thought of thee sill stand before mine eyes
While I lie fettered in this stagnant cage;
Unseen by me the golden Grecian skies,
Forgotten is the Grecian Golden Age.
Drear and dank this stale Ionian bark,
That plods its path alone Aegean ways.
Could I but see old Homer, tall and dark,
And hear the battle-laughter of his lays!
Farewell, oh France! Farewell, thou tortured West!
Bear strong thy shield above thine outraged breast.

poem by Leon Gellert
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

quote by Wilfred Burchett
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I have a good jacket in France.

Spanish proverbs
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France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

quote by Laurent Fabius
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