Louis XV of France/war and Foreign Policy 1740-1763

Famous quotes containing the words louis, france, war, foreign and/or policy:

    This be the verse you grave for me:
    Here he lies where he longed to be;
    Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
    And the hunter home from the hill.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!
    Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    But no, he only said,
    “Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
    That wants me as a war might if it came.
    Ask any man.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)