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France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.