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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.


Manuel Puig


#always #authors #french #german #great

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.


Edwidge Danticat


#america #army #been #big #chunk

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.


Norm Dicks


#airbus #aircraft #british #commercial #companies

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.


Louis Leakey


#deteriorating #evidence #french #paintings #prehistoric

Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table.


Charles Pierre Monselet (


#french-author #life #memories #pleasant #table

You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.


Stephanie Perkins


#ettiene-st-clair #love #romance #ya #young-adult-romance

An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. One day he said to me - he had some English - "Why are you sad?" "I'm not sad," I said, and began to cry. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous. "You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But you are young and pretty, you will have time to be sad later." The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all the kinds. This is why they have bidets. "It is criminal, the love," he said, patting my shoulder. "But none is worse.


Margaret Atwood


#love #sadness #love

Je t'inventerai Des mots insensés Que tu comprendras Je te parlerai De ces amants-là Qui ont vue deux fois Leurs coeurs s'embraser Je te raconterai L'histoire de ce roi Mort de n'avoir pas Pu te rencontrer Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas Ne me quitte pas


Jacques Brel


#love #love

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.


Jennifer Donnelly


#kings #louis-xiv #royalty #versailles #imagination

What exactly is a french before it's fried?


D.J. MacHale


#french