The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
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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.
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
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.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.
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