Famous quotes containing the words charles de and/or paris:
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)