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Cuisine is a universal and mixed-race love marriage, in which man sublimates a place and a culture.


Marc Veyrat


#love

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn't the kind of girl you'd ask again: she'd ended up showing off everything she'd got, and she'd puked all down one of the muslin curtains and completely ruined it. At least the men did go into the street to do it; Lorilleux and Poisson, when they felt queer, managed to dash as far as the pork-butcher's shop. Breeding always tells.


Émile Zola


#french-people #l-assommoir #puking #vomiting #men

...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.


Michael Coren


#inquisition #religious-violence #men

The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.


Saša Stanišić


#french #humor #self-deprecating #serbian #to-love

They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!


Stephanie Perkins


#france #paris #parenting

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.


The Invisible Committee


#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor.


The Invisible Committee


#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.


Stephanie Perkins


#british-boys #etienne-st-clair #romance #swoon #paris

Ce n'était qu'un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j'en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


#children-s-books #foreign-language #french #friendship #friendship

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.


Anatole France


#english #french #love #passion #prefer