Free French Navy

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“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)