How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep i...
Cook with butter in the North, olive oil in the South.
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. All social questions achieve their finality around that blade. T...
It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.
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 Defarge , c...
I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.
The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
With a quick thank-you, I focused my attention on the pastry he brought. The flavors melted in my mouth- warm chocolate and melted butter and the flaky sweet crust. This was what I loved about France....
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
I’d love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I’d want to be covered in drops of candle wax and...
bullshit french post-war rationalizing
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 F...
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.