I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I couldn't get along with the French.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
I read French much better than I speak.
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.