Wars
The CFBS line was affected by three wars; The Franco-Prussian War, World War I and World War II .
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Famous quotes containing the word wars:
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlesly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)