Charles de Gaulle/prime Minister of France 1944-1946

Famous quotes containing the words gaulle, prime, minister and/or france:

    For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
    —Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.
    Clara Barton (1821–1912)